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Re:Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers by pjmlp on Monday July 04, 2016 @01:37AM (#12029035)
Today it might not make much sense, given C++, Ada, Rust and a few others are around.

But the Turbo Pascal 6.0 from 25 years ago certainly was more expressive, feature rich and safer than C of today.

The verbosity of Pascal is welcomed by those that had to maintain programs written by others.

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Re:Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers by alayne on Monday July 04, 2016 @11:00AM (#12031144)
TP6 had 255 byte strings and you couldn't implement your own WriteLn. It seemed like it was still breaking free from academic pascal.
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Re:Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers by pjmlp on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @05:03AM (#12035211)
In a world where the applications and OS had to fit under 640KB, I never had a problem with the string sizes.

I don't see why anyone would like to implement its own WriteLn.

You have the same issue with professional languages and I never saw anyone complaining about it.

Also C needs Assembly for its IO library and everyone is ok with it.

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