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I started out with Pascal. Compilation was such a non-event... Subjectively entire programs compiled faster than a line of Julia takes today. Then again, if I r

I started out with Pascal. Compilation was such a non-event... Subjectively entire programs compiled faster than a line of Julia takes today. Then again, if I remember correctly Pascal the language was written with ease of compiling in mind. My compiler today has to do a lot more work so I can do a lot less...

badsectoracula 7y ago
Yeah although Delphi/Object Pascal - even in its Delphi 2 incarnation - is a much more complicated beast than Wirth's Pascal. But i think most of the extensions that were introduced over the years were still in the same spirit of easy compilation and parsing.