"Jürgen Hestermann" <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de>: > > You can post an ad for a C > > programmer and get 1,000 applicants, if you post an ad for a Pascal > > programmer you might get 5, at least where I live.
Yes, and guess what: Odds are that there are more than 5 good ones out of the 1000 C-programmers than a single good one out of the 5 Pascal-programmers. > Yes, that maybe true. But how has all this started? As far as I know, C > was not that popular in past (at least not on Windows). Instead (Turbo) > Pascal was a widely used language. Suddenly this turned. May have come > from Linux, where C was standard. I don't know. It has never changed. It always has been that way. Same goes for any programmming language which claims to be better than C. You know what: Being worse than C would be quite an accomplishment. So the real choice is not: C or Pascal, but C or "any language". Statistically that means half of the people choose C - and the remaining half chooses a language out of thousands of others. Vinzent. -- Neu: GMX DSL bis 50.000 kBit/s und 200,- Euro Startguthaben! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
