[fpc-other] Pascal and C/Fortran

[Lourival Mendes]

    Hy everybody, I was reading the last thread about Pascal and its
popularity and came into my mind some questions. As some one said normally
engineers are used to programm in Pascal but with the Matlab and some
commercial codes this common practice vanished.

    I'm afraid to say that it is true, I can confirm this because I'm an
engineering and as so my programming skills are to dummies as you may
imagine. Also I already programmed with C and Fortran, and in my opinion I
found then hard to understand once that I have learned Pascal before.
Another thing that I have in against C and Fortran is that I already
programmed in Delphi 7 and it was pretty easy.

   But always that I say to some computer science friends that I'm used to
work with Pascal, now Lazarus, instead of C or Fortran, they usually look me
as an old guy and say some technical phrases that C is better than Pascal,
because it is fast and Fortran is better because it has a large number of
libraries for engineering calculus.

   Of course that I don't wanna promote a revolution of Pascal and impose it
to them but I would like to known some differences between those languages.
For me Pascal is easier and it is enough but is there some clear technical
advantages, or is there some way that we can do, during the programming
routine or configs to became faster the Pascal programming?

   Sorry for my poor English and technical words but I'm only curious about
that.

Thanks a lot,
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Lourival Mendes
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