Re: Benefits/Drawbacks of C (was Re: something I ...)

[Patrick Dunford]

Steve Holdoway wrote:

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:56:39 +1300, you wrote:

 

Jaco Swart wrote:

   

Williams, Olwen - SAL wrote:

     

Incidentally I've learnt and tried to learn C.  Latin was easier.

       

:-)  My first impression of C was: "boy, this is an ugly language!"  
Before C, I used Pascal. Pascal is beautiful.

     

Yeah, let's hear it for Pascal! woohoo!
   

But that was just Mr Wroth's first offering. What about Modula-2? (
-3? ). 

And once you've tried to use pointers in Pascal, you'll change your
tune, I guarantee!
 

I don't remember any problems with using them. But with Delphi of course 
you can just use a TList