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Pascal was great when you were coloring within the lines, but C was more flexible. I don't think I was ever able to do image processing in Pascal, and I shudder
by mark-r 9y ago
Pascal was great when you were coloring within the lines, but C was more flexible. I don't think I was ever able to do image processing in Pascal, and I shudder to think what it would take to do a device driver.
Pascal was my primary language from about 1980 to 1990, then I transitioned to C and from there to C++. I missed the whole Delphi train.
- Jtsummers 9y agoI was not programming in Pascal in the 80s, I started with BASIC around 1990 (in grade school). But I did use Pascal some in college (early 00s). I'm curious why you say you couldn't do image processing in Pascal, because that was an exercise we had in college and it wasn't difficult at all (though at the moment I could not recreate what I did, it's been too long since I've looked at Pascal). Was this a difficulty with early Pascal?
- pjmlp 9y agoGiven that I did graphics programming with Turbo Pascal on MS-DOS, I wonder what was missing. Anything more heavy required anyway Assembly, regardless of the high level language being used, C was no different here.