On 1/2/2023 5:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
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.
FAST, yes, even with 256K memory and only floppy drives - my first PC
(compatible) machine.
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