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This is the environment where my programming really took off from amateur to, well, less amateur. It was so fast to compile and so ergonomic compared to the al
by outside1234 6y ago
This is the environment where my programming really took off from amateur to, well, less amateur.
It was so fast to compile and so ergonomic compared to the alternatives.
Great stuff.
- epx 6y agoMe too, with a lot of help from Herbert Schildt books.
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- vishnugupta 6y agoMe too! I graduated, in a manner of speaking, from FORTRAN, which had no recursion and pointers to Pascal. Looking back I believe Pascal was the perfect language to learn those two fundamental and tricky concepts. It felt aesthetically pleasing and struck just the right balance between the terse (and sometimes quirky) C and verbose COBOL. When I coded up those graph algorithms in Pascal I felt “happy” in a way that can’t be explained and which I didn’t experience in C.
- pjmlp 6y agoSimilar experience, I think it boils down to little details handling pointers that are out of reach in C, like reference parameters. Sure you can emulate them with double pointer indirection, which is anyway what the compiler does, but it adds more cognitive overhead.
- goddstream 6y agoMe too! Pascal has a natural "flow" that I lost when I transitioned to C.
- jug 6y agoYes, I prefer it over C if I had to program in any of these languages. It feels higher level despite it really isn't very much, just a smidge that will often not matter technically, however it will for a developer.