[fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Oct 12 12:35:05 CEST 2009


In our previous episode, Rainer Stratmann said:
> > > Remember, Pascal is merely a TEACHING language, unsuitable for commercial
> > > software development, which is why we have C.  :)
> >
> > And why should that be the case? What are the outstanding feature of C
> > that make it so supperiour? It's illogical and hard to maintain syntax?
> > Or is it just that it was available for free on all unix systems?
> 
> Yes, it is available everywhere.

Try compiling some Unix C code on Windows.

Give me Free Pascal any time :-)




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