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- From: raytodd@tima.com (Ray Todd Sevens)
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- Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LANGUAGE
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:09:33
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- In article <4kqea9$1tm@innocence.interface-business.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
- >From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
- >Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LANGUAGE
- >Date: 14 Apr 1996 08:51:21 GMT
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- >roy@mersinet.co.uk writes:
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- >> > 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.
-
- >Let's face it, tools like Turbo Pascal are really up to the task to
- >do ``real-worl programs''.
-
- Actually the complaint I keep hearing about my use of TP is that it is to hard
- to write a program that compiles without errors. When I point out that those
- same problems are errors in C, they just don't get caught by the compiler and
- are now bugs in the programs; I just keep eharing something like well at least
- the project is out the door. No wonder our industry has such a bad rep.
-
- >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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