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- From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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- Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LANGUAGE
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 08:51:21 GMT
- Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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- roy@mersinet.co.uk writes:
-
- > > I don't like Pascal, it's to easy, the compiler always knows the
- > > errors, you can't make a buggy program because you can't do a good
- > > program.
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- > I have written countless very useful system programs for Netware using
- > Borlands Turbo Pascal which, with its inline assembler, provides an
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > environment in which solid reliable code can be built extremely rapidly.
- > The speed at which you can put a project together is often a key
- > factor in the "Real World".
-
- But that's not plain Pascal.
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- Let's face it, tools like Turbo Pascal are really up to the task to
- do ``real-worl programs''.
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- Plain old Wirth Pascal is an (excellent) educational language however.
-
- --
- cheers, J"org
-
- joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
- Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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