Re:Modern C [pdf]
by stinos on Monday November 28, 2016 @09:43AM
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hmm got me there I guess. Never looked closely into those, can you summarize in what way thay are better than C? Less shoot-yourself-in-the-foot maybe?
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Yes.
Pascal dialects already in the late 80's, early 90's, allowed for:
- type safe sub ranges
- proper strings
- type safe enumerations, enumerations as vector indexes
- type safe allocation (new vs malloc)
- type safe out parameters via references instead of pointers
- bounds checking and checked arithmetic (you can explicit disable them if required for performance)
- real modules via units
- pointer arithmetic is more explicit
As for MicroPython, MikroPascal from MikroElektronika supports all those tiny chips.