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- From: doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Pontus Berg is a tool
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:20:56 -0500
- Organization: Creative Micro Designs, Inc.
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- In article <4fra4c$9cj@news.uncc.edu>, terrance@idirect.com wrote:
-
- > Screw all you guys, you're all geeks that don't have the sense or
- > the intelligence to shift to a computer sysytem with more than 8-bits..
- > I understand, Pascal is so much more difficult than Commodore basic..
-
- I don't see what common sense or intelligence has to do with switching
- from an 8-bit machine to something else. If a tool does what you need it
- to do to your satisfaction, common sense and intelligence would dictate
- that you should NOT replace it with something else.
-
- As for Pascal, no it isn't tough to learn, but why spend all that extra
- time typing, then have to wait for the program to compile before you can
- even test it? I've seen no other language that beats BASIC for quick
- program development, and if you really need the extra speed, chuck the
- high-level languages and get your hands dirty with straight assembly.
- Frankly, while Pascal has some good recursive capabilities, it was
- designed as a teaching language, to force students to learn structured
- programming. As such, it takes five times the typing to do something as
- simple as BASIC's PRINT "HELLO WORLD".
-
- Instead of preaching to Commodore users about the virtues of switching
- platforms, shouldn't you be off somewhere studying the latest version of
- Visual C++?
-
-
- Doug Cotton
- E-mail: doug.cotton@the-spa.com
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