[fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal

[wi]

C does have goto.

cheers
Wayne

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Marco Alvarado <cronodragon at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem of GOTO is that C doesn't have one. If C had one, and
>  Pascal didn't have a GOTO, they would blame Pascal for not having it.
>  In assembler GOTOs make a lot of sense (i.e. JMP and Jxx), and it's
>  weird C doesn't have one, after all C tries to be the lowest level of
>  the highest level languages. It's great Pascal have both high and low
>  level features.
>
>  In my opinion nested functions are a more structured way of creating a
>  program, that's something you don't have in C.
>
>  And when you have to write something like:
>
>  int x, int y, int z, int w, int a, int b, int c...
>
>  Instead of the faster, more elegant and more readable Pascal way:
>
>  x, y, z, w, a, b, c: Integer
>
>  I don't understand why people say that C is a faster language...
>  neither the compiler beats Pascal.
>
>  Also, what's the advantage of having a return, it forces to quit the
>  function, and that's lack of freedom. If you wanted to keep working
>  with the value, you would have to create a temporal variable, which is
>  less readable, especially if you are already working with other temps.
>
>
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Cheers
Wayne