On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:21:15 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >I programmed in PL/I >professionally and IMO Pascal is a far cleaner language with more >expressive features. Pascals successors, such as Module/2 and Delphi, >widen the gap even more.
I would never profess to have "programmed" in PL/I - I was taught it by a one-time employer. Did the job for a high level language in the 80's - but I was an assembler sysprog. Now Delphi - that was something else again when I was looking to do some Windoze coding some years later. Man, that IDE was awesome, even for a non-Pascal guy. Borland exes should have been shot for what they did to that business. There was a huge user conference in Anaheim in 1996 when I passed through in 1996. And they (Borland) tossed it all away. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
