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"What about Pascal?" The type system, and control flow structures, were more strict and allowed less "abuse" (flexibility) than C. Strings were fixed-length ar
by sampo 14y ago
"What about Pascal?"
The type system, and control flow structures, were more strict and allowed less "abuse" (flexibility) than C. Strings were fixed-length arrays of chars, which was also less flexible than strings in C. Also people felt the begin-end block syntax less fashionable than C's {}.
Take a look at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
- barrkel 14y agoBWK's rant on Pascal is about as relevant today as a critique of original C (no prototypes, types defaulting to int, etc.). In other respects (e.g. strong type safety) Pascal's approach "won", depending on your perspective.