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- From: Mike Wilson <mwilson@ccm.tdsnet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.misc,hku.cs.open-forum
- Subject: Re: C vs Pascal
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 21:37:35 -0700
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- Lee Chun Kwok º⌡«m░Ω wrote:
- >
- > awong@csd.hku.hk (Beyond) wrote:
- >
- > >I am a student from other faculty taken one of your course in CS department. When I went thro' the past paper, I came across a headache.
- The question is "C is
- > >Oh, I am not familiar with C, as well as Pascal. Also, I don't understand the meaning of "structured". How can I answer the question.
- So, any computer expert
- > >Thanks in advance.
- >
- > Well, the first thing is that the newsgroup hku.cc.forum is not the place
- > to ask this question, so I crosspost this article to the appropriate
- > newsgroups.
- >
- > This article may start a war on those newsgroup (:)). But personally I
- > think the statement is not true. Both languages are structural
- > languages, but it seems that Pascal is more structured than C, rather.
- > C's strenth relies on its low-level capabilities. For example, you can
- > handle pointers with ease and do pointer arithmetics. You can treat an
- > array using pointers. With pascal, you can hardly do this. But with
- > pascal, you can have procedures inside procedures (<=is this standard
- > pascal? I'm using Borland), and other things like that. You don't have
- > "break", "continue" in standard Pascal.
- >
- > Correct me if anything is wrong.
- >
- > Regards.
- >
- > --
- > ///////////////////////////////
- > "-- | / | "-- "-- Lee Chun Kwok Hong Kong
- > | |= | |-- |-- ---------------------------------
- > \__ | \ \__ \__ \__ mailto:h9504367@hkueee.hku.hk
- > /////////////////////////////// http://www.eee.hku.hk/~h9504367When DOS was king, C was the best way to go. Now in windows, Delphi is
- the superior compiler.
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