On 2/20/07, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Op Tue, 20 Feb 2007, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In the ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest dropped pascal > for this year final competitions and for next year, the students are not > allowed to use pascal as their programming language. Did you know this? What > is your idea? Also, in TopCoder site, you can not develop your programs with > Pascal while as I know, Pascal has all the properties that C++ or JAVA have. > > Any idea? Is there any technical problem with Pascal to be used in TopCoder's > contest?
This is sad because Object Pascal is a nice language and fpc is a great compiler. Most C programs can be translated without too much trouble. And ofcourse, things like strings are so easy.
In short, Pascal still rocks in contests. One thing is very important: a rock solid text mode IDE under both Windows and Linux. This makes a difference in a contest. FPC has never been able to live up to the Turbo Pascal level here.
Editors like (g)Vim and (X)Emacs can be easily customized to invoke the compiler. With fpc, you don't need a makefile as the compiler is so fast. So, all is required is a keybinding to fire up the compiler.
I'd say especially the IDE in Linux was only useable for people knowledged with FPC to work around the limitations.
If you are talking about the debugger, then I guess you have a point but with Object Pascal, the need for requiring the services of a debugger is much less say when using C or C++. But then, Emacs comes with an interface to gdb and its delphi-mode is good too. Cheers, Krishna -- We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around. - Alan Perlis
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