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"Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language", Brian W. Kernighan, April 2, 1981: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pascal.html h
by mcguire 3y ago
"Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language", Brian W. Kernighan, April 2, 1981:
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pascal.html https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pas...
One of the major problems, as I recall, was that Wirth's basic Pascal definition was very limited---the max 256 character strings, for example. So the makers of "production" Pascal compilers added extensions to do all of the things that you would want to do and unfortunately those extensions were all incompatible.
- pjmlp 3y agoA famous rant ignoring Pascal dialects, while C still lacked a standard and was a bunch of dialects all over the place.
- mcguire 3y agoI've never seen a C dialect, other than not supporting bit fields. The language was usually the same although the libraries were all over the place.
- pjmlp 3y agoThen you haven't used any C compilers during the CP/M, 8-bit and 16-bit days. Here are two, RatC, Small-C. Additionally what do you think GCC C is, in regards to K&R C and ANSI C?