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- From: Ben Keeping <b.keeping@ic.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C vs Pascal
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 12:25:14 GMT
- Organization: Centre for Process Systems Engineering
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- ng@mitswa.com.au (John A Ng) wrote:
- >As always, argument about Pascal and C.
- [snip]
- >In such as argument, we should really be objective and see why C is
- >actually more popular than it should.
- >
- [6 excellent points]
- >(PS: I am a profession C++ programmer who started with Turbo Pascal).
-
- I mainly wanted to say what a great post I thought this was - a refreshing
- change from the unreasoned expressions of loyalty which too often appear when
- languages are compared.
-
- Just to nudge the argument a little further, how about Modula 2 as an attempt
- to remedy Pascal's deficiencies as a language for big projects? It seems to be
- dying unfortunately!
-
- Ben Keeping
- Imperial College
- UK
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