On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
However, in general Pascal has poor developer productivity when compared
to modern languages like python and C#. Ironically python is perhaps the
most popular language on Linux and most of its syntax is derived from
object pascal whereas pascal on linux is virtually non-existant. Of course
Python is piss poor in both performance and memory usage but it does point
the way to a revitalised pascal. Adopting less verbose but still clean and
clear syntax ala python is IMHO the way to make Pascal great again.
I beg to differ.
Recently I rewrote a python program (on linux). The pascal version was
shorter and much clearer to understand. The python syntax is a horror
as far as I'm concerned.
Im not saying make pascal behave like python so if you were doing some weird
dynamic stuff with python thats fair enough.
The python program wasn't mine.
There were errors in it; it was easier to rewrite it in pascal than to try and
fix it.
ALl im sayting is theres no harm
in replacing some of the verbose syntax with less verbose ones provided they
dont harm the clarity of the code.
I love delphi but find its verbosity a pain in some circumstances.
I don't consider Ojbect Pascal to be verbose at all, so it's not an issue for
me...
Michael.
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