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- From: thecrow@iconn.net (The Crow)
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- Subject: Re: Is Pascal worth to learn? Can it help me to get a job?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 22:36:09 GMT
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- In article <4dh361$djk@news.2sprint.net>, ggrotz@2sprint.netf says...
- >
- >ng@mitswa.com.au (John A Ng) wrote:
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- >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...
- >
- >
- >
- This is a bad example. The output libraries for C have more in them, so when
- you include them to say "Hello World" the file size is a little bigger. If you
- sad Hello World a million times the file size would not be 7 million k, get it?
- you just get that big hit once. You are right though, pascal code is usally
- smaller. But that 20 times faster thing is VERY VERY wrong. I have seen a few
- cases where it is like .2 times faster but usually it is just the same given
- similar compilers.
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