-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/06 16:30, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> >> My recollection of the 1980s MS-DOS world was that Turbo Pascal's >> problems were it's small memory model and lack of modules until >> v4.0, by which time C had already taken over. > > Who said anything about MSDOS? C took over when CP/M was the rage. > "Modules" are just what I mentioned with respect to "separate > compilation". > > The issue with Pascal is that it is completely unsuited to > systems programming altogether, because it has no escape > route from the strong typing, no provision for separate > compilation, and uses interpreted p-code.
I'm not a systems programmer, I'm a DP programmer. Thus, I don't give a Rat's Arse whether my language of choice is good for system programming. In fact, I *like* B&D languages. Why? Not needing to worry about pointers and heaps and array under/overflows trampling over core means that my jobs die less often, which is A Good Thing. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFf0DtS9HxQb37XmcRApVZAJ0Z4jsvT41QiywwK2BEueLmBImJWwCeKZBr xI+kACgAmPijHXAUOrdTiQo= =o5VA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
