On 07/17/18 13:28, Ryan Joseph wrote:
On Jul 17, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote:
And that's why I hesitate whenever someone comes along and says we should add
<feature of the day> to Pascal
I just want my life to be easier and to enjoy programming in Pascal as much as
possible. If I’m doing work I don’t have to, merely knowing that Pascal has
remained pure to the original specification is not very much comfort to me.
That's why we have more than one language to create programs with. It's
not possible to use one language in all domains with an equal amount of
ease in each domain.
Think of human languages. You cannot describe the operation of an
internal combustion engine and the operation of performing an
appendectomy with the same, plain English vocabulary. Each requires the
use of jargon specific to the domain. So it is with programming
languages - if we added the "jargon" necessary to cover every domain in
a single language, that language would be unintelligible.
-Jim
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