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I haven't worked with Pascal since 1999, I remember it being a much simpler language. And no where near as fun. Hilarity ensued when I didn't realize there was

I haven't worked with Pascal since 1999, I remember it being a much simpler language. And no where near as fun. Hilarity ensued when I didn't realize there was no garbage collector.

pjmlp 9y ago
Pascal and Turbo Pascal aren't the same thing. Turbo Pascal was more a kind of simplified Ada than a pure Pascal, which made me look down on C when checking down the laundry list of language features of Turbo Pascal 6.0 versus ANSI C89 in 1993. Also by 1999 no one was doing anything serious in Turbo Pascal with the last version being targeted at Windows 3.1. Delphi 1.0 was released for Windows 95, and it did at least have some kind of GC for COM based classes. Also Delphi 10 might not have every Rust feature, but it surely has it own set of complex language features. Or if you prefer Ada, C#, D are also possible sources of information regarding performance of compilation toolchains, with relatively complex languages.