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Original standard pascal was shitty. Strings had a strongly typed length, so you couldnt write a function which accepts strings of different length. Also (what
by andi999 4y ago
Original standard pascal was shitty. Strings had a strongly typed length, so you couldnt write a function which accepts strings of different length. Also (what I personally really dislike) the syntax doesnt allow you to write your own 'write' function (since lets call it variadic parameters were not allowed).
Turbo Pascal was better and Delphi pascal was great.
- pjmlp 4y agoSomething that was already sorted out by USCD and ISO Extended Pascal time, features that were later adopted by Turbo Pascal. VMS Pascal was also quite alright. Also Modula-2, which sorted out all the issues related with original Pascal, was introduced in 1978. So everyone that focused on the original Pascal as reason for not using Pascal, was having a fossilized mindset. I think that biggest culprit for it was the widespread of p2c in UNIX.