On Friday 16 October 2009 06:40:20 am Mark Emerson wrote:
> On Friday 16 October 2009 06:04:17 am Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote:
> > > Lee Jenkins <l...@datatrakpos.com> wrote:
> > >> I don't agree with the idea that "BEGIN...END" determines the failure
> > >> of Pascal, as syntax completion is for that. Both "BEGIN...END" and
> > >> "{...}" are finished in the same time if they were done by computer.
> > >> On the contrary, it is part of the way of Pascal being elegant.
> > >
> > > Its very amusing to me when I meet people who are also developers and
> > > tell them I use object pascal and they look at me like I just told them
> > > I was using punch cards.
> > >
> > > I just tell them...
> > >
> > > ObjectPascal: Strong like C, Easy like VB.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Warm Regards,
> > >
> > > Lee
> >
> > That blank look in the eyes of the C crowd is so strange. Lots and lots
> > of people shy away from C/C++/etc since it is so obviously bad, but they
> > don't know about Pascal so they go to slow scripting languages. They
> > sure are happpier there than with C, but Pascal would be so much better
> > in many cases.
> >
> > I usually don't say that I use Pascal, I say that I use FPC. Then they
> > don't understandand what that is and think they missed something. And
> > they sure have.
> >
> > FPC: Faster to compiler, faster to run, faster to write, faster to
> > debug... We should print T-shirts with messages like that.
> >
> >
> > /Ingemar
>
> But you guys all seem to be forgetting what I wrote near the beginning of
> this thread, Pascal is merely a TEACHING language, which is why we have C.
> :)
>
> Most people aren't interested in truth (e.g. that Pascal is a vastly
> superior language in almost every respect). They are instead interested in
> what is popular, politically correct, and has been artfully propagandized
> into their gullible, small minds from a source they believe to be an
> "authority" (e.g. REAL programmers don't use Pascal).
>
> All truth passes through three stages.
> First, it is ridiculed,
> second it is violently opposed, and
> third, it is accepted as self-evident.
>
> Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
>
> Getting small-minded people to wake up on almost any topic, from
> programming languages to global politics, is the stuff of revolution. And
> that is the BEGINing and the END.
>
> Mark Emerson
Correction... I should have said " (e.g. that *the FPC implemention of* Pascal
is a vastly superior language in almost every respect)." Sorry.
Mark Emerson
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