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That's awesome though!
by a-nikolaev 5y ago
That's awesome though!
- bdamm 5y agoSomehow this feels like sarcasm, given that Pascal is older that pretty much everyone on this forum.
- insulanus 5y agoThe novelty of a tool is not directly correlated to its worth, because we can always make new, worse tools. Newer tools CAN make use of new information in a better design, but it doesn't always happen.
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- benibela 5y agoSeriously: https://github.com/benibela?tab=repositories https://github.com/benibela?tab=repositories I have been doing it for 20 years, and all the time Pascal had null-safe strings and C-like performance. And the strings even had mutability xor aliasing with copy on write
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- pjmlp 5y agoImagine an alternative reality where Borland did not went greedy, Java 1.0 would just be like Go, while .NET Native would just be improved VB 7 and a new language C# (just a kind of "managed C++") making COM developer friendly without C++ boilerplate that persists to this day.