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I get the feeling that commenters aren't reading the linked article at all, just latching onto the mention of PASCAL in the title. This article is almost the o
by hsitz 11y ago
I get the feeling that commenters aren't reading the linked article at all, just latching onto the mention of PASCAL in the title.
This article is almost the opposite of Brian Kernighan's "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Language". Kernighan criticized Pascal, essentially, for not being as advanced as C.
In contrast, the linked article is written from perspective of old-time FORTRAN programmer and essentially criticizes PASCAL for being too advanced, "structured programming" and all that stupid, frilly, "advanced", academic, "computer science" stuff. "We get stuff done the old-school way; we don't need no new-fangled language!"
The linked article could be rewritten with some appropriate changes and titled "Real Programmers Don't Use Haskell (or Rust, or . . .)" and written from the perspective of a C/C++/Java or Go(!) programmer.