On 2023-01-02, Alan Gauld <learn2prog...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/01/2023 02:14, avi.e.gr...@gmail.com wrote: >> I used PASCAL before C and I felt like I was wearing a straitjacket at times >> in PASCAL when I was trying to write encryption/decryption functions and had >> to find ways to fiddle with bits. Similar things were easy in C, and are >> even easier in many more recent languages such as Python. > > That's true of pure Pascal. But Thomas was talking about Turbo Pascal > which had extra functions and features for all those "real world" type > things. (And you could insert some inline assembler if all else failed) > It also relaxed the ludicrously strict typing slightly. Turbo Pascal > made Pascal a joy and I still use Delphi for Windows programming today. > > TP also introduced classes to Pascal (although Apple had already done > so for the Mac and Borland basically ported the syntax to the PC).
TP was indeed a joy to work with. It made it trivial to do simple graphics on an IBM-PC and it was FAST -- both to write in, to debug, and in raw execution speed. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
