On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Moonchild <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13-02-2010 21:30, Chris Miller wrote: >> >> PS: Pascal? It's been five years since I've heard of someone using >> that language! >> > > Sure, it's less common to see with everyone being pretty much forced to use > C/C++ and derivatives (by popular demand, mostly), but for small applications
I actually like the C-style syntaxing. Once you've messed around with something like Ruby, you really appreciate how the C-style of doing things removes a lot of strange ambiguities. > and programs that need specifically complex functions, I tend to use it too - > it's just much more structured than C, IMHO, and as far as performance and > usability goes, it's just as good as any same-generation language. I've > written full lab automation programs with it (including robotics, realtime > signal processing and complex math and graphics) and it's scarily efficient at > some things that C seems to struggle with or needs strange constructions for > ;) I don't doubt that it's a powerful language. It's just not uber-popular like C is. I honestly haven't heard of anyone using it in about 5 years. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Moonchild <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oh fun, another interpreted language to add to my stack of slow things >> to ignore. > > Actually, no, it isn't - it just has compilers for many platforms. >From personal experience, it's going to take a lot longer than a few minutes to port something to Win32 from a Unix environment. Unless it's Java, but that's interpreted and rather slow. -- Registered Linux Addict #431495 For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! http://www.fsdev.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
