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Brian Kernighan on "Why Pascal is not my Favorite Programming Language" (https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pas

• ajuc 6y ago
  I find it strange that he complained about Pascal's lack of dynamic arrays, when the Pascal solution is to use pointers (exactly what C does for all arrays and strings anyway). Many of his other points are solved by Turbo Pascal and Delphi/Object Pascal. But of course nowadays there are better languages for real world programming. It's just a shame that there's nothing as simple and elegant for teaching programming (). () lisp is even more elegant, but it has a lot of gotchas and it's so far from mainstream that using it for teaching isn't a good idea IMHO