Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 26 February 2012 10:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> used as a system programming
language. My own experience indicates that as> soon as you start using a 4GL or
similar for anything that the implementors> didn't think of you're in very deep water.
I guess in my 5 years of Turbo Pascal and 15 years of ObjectPascal/Delphi, I haven't
stepped in deep water yet. Or I was verylucky, or I simply found alternative programming
solutions for all my"deep water" problems. :-)
Wrong end of stick, Graeme. I meant that the traditional BASICs and 4GLs
got hairy very fast as soon as you attempted to do anything out of the
ordinary, I hoped that my
>> Object Pascal differs [...] it's arguably complete enough that it can
>> be used as a system programming language
was sufficiently unambiguous.
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