Re:Printable True Bugs Wait Posters
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:02PM
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I haven't used pascal for closing in on 20 years, and don't miss it one bit.
For you younger people reading this who have never been exposed to pascel, go dig up that article and scroll down to section 2.1 and just think about that for a minute. Ask yourself 'is this the kind of computing environment I want to work in?'
FYI: FreePascal has Dynamic Arrays that are automatically resized by the runtime, which addresses section 2.1.
2.4 - separate compilation was added in Turbo Pascal 4. (one could argue that the result is Modula, rather than Pascal - so be it)
2.2 - initialization of module data was added in Turbo Pascal 5. Yes, "static" data has to be at the module level instead of hidden within individual routines. Bug or feature? (let the jihad/crusade commence...)
As the commentary on http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyPascalIsNotMyFavoriteProgrammingLa... points out, the critique was against the 1981 academic version of Pascal.
The people who brought us the [in]famous "Why Pascal is not my favorite language" article would have done well to look at their own glass house.
OTOH, C does make a great portable assembler if you are using it to implement another language (which is exactly what we did at one of my jobs in the early 90s)
... Had to explain to my daughter this morning why I was laughing at the "abstinence" posters ...