On Feb 13, 6:15 pm, Moonchild <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13-02-2010 21:30, Chris Miller wrote: > > > > > PS: Pascal? It's been five years since I've heard of someone using > > that language! > > Sure, it's less common to see with everyone being pretty much forced to use > C/C++ and derivatives (by popular demand, mostly), but for small applications > and programs that need specifically complex functions, I tend to use it too - > it's just much more structured than C, IMHO, and as far as performance and > usability goes, it's just as good as any same-generation language. I've > written full lab automation programs with it (including robotics, realtime > signal processing and complex math and graphics) and it's scarily efficient at > some things that C seems to struggle with or needs strange constructions for > ;)
I agree with you. Somewhere between visual basic and C is pascal. It's a very good general purpose language. Of course, the quality is dependent on the compilers available. I think delphi would be used more in the windows world if it weren't so expensive..... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
