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Bear in mind that this was written in 1981, at the beginning of a decade that saw enormous progress for Pascal, rendering most of "some guy"'s objections invali
by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
Bear in mind that this was written in 1981, at the beginning of a decade that saw enormous progress for Pascal, rendering most of "some guy"'s objections invalid. ANSI C only happened towards the end of that decade.
I think when an essay from 20 (or 35) years ago claiming "X sucks" is referenced, it's kinda foolish not to draw attention to the history that followed.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoWell, I was using Pascal professionally from 1986 to 1988, and many of those objections were still valid. (Granted, on an embedded system rather than a PC, so the improvements in Pascal were slower in coming to us.)
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoI was using pascal in the early 90s, and the compilers to which I had access most certainly still had "Strongly typed, but arrays of different lengths are different types", which was incredibly annoying. (And for fun, consider the arguments against pascal's length-typed arrays and against go's lack of generics)