Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 11:23 AM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Of course, to an assembly language hacker, it was obvious that C ruled
and the bondage-and-discipline of Pascal sucked. The rest is history.
Not everything about Pascal sucked and not everything about C rocked.
Rephrase: *Everything* about Pascal sucked. *Almost everything* about C
sucked.
That makes C the proper choice.
At that point I was amazed that people even bothered with C because
its productivity compared to Turbo Pascal was pretty damn poor. Note
that Turbo had extended capabilities past standard Pascal
Bingo. That was the problem with most Pascal compilers. They didn't
have extensions to deal with things like ... oh ... communicating to
your hardware or your OS.
-a
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