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- From: ggrotz@2sprint.net (Valtar)
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- Subject: Re: Is Pascal worth to learn? Can it help me to get a job?
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:25:32 GMT
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- ng@mitswa.com.au (John A Ng) wrote:
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- > It can do anything that C can but with a remarkably fast compiler (about 20 times
- >faster than a competitive C compiler/linker). This makes learning a
- >breeze.
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- So very true...And ultimately smaller than C. I wrote just a simple
- "Hello World!" program in TP, and C both...The EXE for TP was 2K,
- while the EXE for C was about 7K. Something's wrong somewhere, if
- people think C is better. Actually, I think it's more Microsoft
- tomfoolery than anything, as you'd be very hard pressed to convince me
- that C is better as a language than Pascal, though I'd like to see the
- Pascal IDE brought up to par with the C one (most of the $ params we
- use in Pascal are standard checkboxes in the C IDE.). And in C, you
- don't have to trifle with the 64K limit for vars...
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