Object Pascal is a long way from Wirth's pascal or even
from turbo pascal. People who say it is a backward language
or dead language don't know object pascal, teach C++, and think
pascal is algol.
The mass of interpreted languages out do indeed have
interesting features. Very nice features. But it does mean
without the speed of todays hard drives and computers you
have serious problems. And sometimes you still have
problems. That said You can write some wonderfully
difficult to follow scripts in them. They are also good as
embedded scripting languages for your application.
Notice it took MS a while but they finally opened up and made
it where you could embed a number of scripting systems instead
of only VB.
As i remember Java, i haven't looked at it in about 6 years,
there were a number of features which just plain couldn't
happen without an interperter.
Many of the early compilers were p-code compilers which
then required an interperter, i think i had one on my first
ibm compatible when i booted under cpm.
But everyone always knew java was slow. It wasn't meant
to be able to be your primary language for large projects.
But as we now have computers 1000s of times faster than
my first one, and tremendously faster than when java
came out.... we are getting lazy.
I mean when people on a regular basis make arrays that
are larger than my early computers had in all of their memory or
could even address. Of course, one place i worked at used to
sell computers with 5 megabyte hard drives and tell people
"that's more than you'll ever need". I had a difficult time with that
since i had a HUGE 10 megabytes of stuff on floppy disks.
---dale
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