john fleming wrote: > I read a n article about relative performance between languages, though > pascal was not one of the nine > the article said that it should be included in future tests. So I did a > little more research on pascal and found out it does pointers and is > faster to program with than C , It seemed that that might be a good > second languuge after python ,but it doesn't seem to be used that much.
My never-humble opinion: Pascal made important contributions to the state of the software engineering art. It pioneered new ideas in structured programming, type safety, and lexical scoping, for example. It was a huge improvement on PL/1, Cobol, and Algol 68. But its time is past. Newer languages have taken its best ideas and discarded its worst. Pascal compilers and runtime environments are in maintenance mode. Even Pascal's author, Niklaus Wirth, moved on to other languages, Modula 1/2/3, etc., around 20 years ago. CS curricula used to have a course called "Comparative Programming Languages" or something similar. Assuming that kind of course is still taught, you might have fun taking it. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
