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>Why can't we have a language easy to read and maintain but also have the speed of C? Swap out { } for Begin End, and make a few other changes, and you've got
by mikewarot 4y ago
>Why can't we have a language easy to read and maintain but also have the speed of C?
Swap out { } for Begin End, and make a few other changes, and you've got Pascal. Single pass pascal compilers have been faster (at compiling) that almost anything out there since Turbo Pascal 3.0 for MS-DOS.
Modern versions, such as Free Pascal, Delphi and Lazarus also deal with strings in a manner that totally avoids needing to manually manage memory. The GUI builders are awesome as well.