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I remember first learning Pascal and hated it. It felt very restricted and difficult to get real work done. The type checks that are worshiped nowadays felt l
by ww520 12y ago
I remember first learning Pascal and hated it. It felt very restricted and difficult to get real work done. The type checks that are worshiped nowadays felt like a straitjacket in Pascal. C was a totally different experience. It was so open and free of restriction that I could hack anything with it. Pascal was a beginner learning language but C was hacker's language.
- xxs 12y agoTurboPascal had great inline asm, so you could hack in any way you please.
- laichzeit0 12y agoI wonder how many people learned graphics programming because of Pascal and inline asm. I wrote many a phong shader, raytracer, and other 3d graphic things back in the day using that. There was a cool Demo tutorial series by a guy called Denthor floating around on BBS's back then.
- Narishma 12y agohttp://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/listed82.html?categoryid=130 http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/listed82.html?c...
- antimagic 12y agoYup. Moving from Pascal to C gave me the same sort of freedom rush as moving from C to Ruby. That said, I don't use Ruby anymore, apart from the occasional command-line tool, but I still use C a lot. I have done a lot of Javascript in the last few years though, and oddly it didn't give me that same feeling of freedom, but that might be because I'd already experienced Ruby.
- pjmlp 12y agoI never felt any restriction in Turbo Pascal and there wasn't a single C feature that I couldn't do with it. The Hacker's language, back when I was coding in Turbo Pascal was called Assembly. C was just for UNIX or when you wanted to do UNIX homework on your Atari ST/Amiga.