Re: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?

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In a message dated 6/15/2006 7:22:20 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, William Cairns wrote: >> Why have their never been any successful Pascal dirivitive languages? >Because pascal is perfect. Why change a perfect language ? >Michael.   And one could argue that there are "dirivitive" languages from PASCAL.Not sur   C being one of them!!!!!   Repace BEGIN END blocks by hard to find { }, change things like well constructed FOR/WHILE/REPEAT loops to something like      if(i=+j/6-5) dosomething (* Not sure that is valid C, but it's close I'm not a C programmer be have to read    a lot of C code, and it constantly confuses me. *) and remove all "strong" type casting and PASCAL becomes C!!!!!!      'Nuff said. PASCAL RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!