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The Pascal critics may like "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" by Brian W. Kernighan, April 2, 1981 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/r

• AnimalMuppet 6y ago
  Which, despite the author, is not a comparison of C and Pascal. The backstory is that Kernighan wrote (with Plaugher) a book called "Software Tools". They wrote it in RATFOR, which is a front-end for FORTRAN. They wrote significant chunks of code - not just examples. Some time later, Kernighan got the idea to re-write the book using Pascal - a much more modern, easy-to-use language. And after doing so, he wondered "Why was that so hard? Pascal should be way easier to write in than RATFOR." And he wrote this paper, analyzing why it was hard to write Software Tools in Pascal.