Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To   : Ennev
From : Vk3jed
Date : Fri Mar 31 2017 06:51 am

-=> Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 > I find it quite neat, for the most part.

 En> Cleaner to read than a bunch of {} %#%$ () () ;

Indeed! :)

 En> Maybe it look less compact, but a code is brisk and small no because
 En> you typed it compactly.

 En> Remember demonstrating that years ago at a job writing the same piece
 En> of code in Turbo Pascal and in Microsoft C.

 En> We had a decompiler so we could see what both code looked like and at
 En> that level it was practically indistinguishable.

Interesting. :)

 En> And when you use Delphi the difference in the size of a .exe was
 En> dramatic.

Yeah, some compilers were shockers back then for including bloat into their
..exe files.

 En> So at the end of the day, it's funnier to support code in Pascal than C
 En> or Java. You can of course type less compact source code in c or java
 En> but it's up to the developer, when pascal forces you.

I always found Pascal very readable, while C varied.  

 En> while (number > 0)
 En>     {
 En>         factorial *= number;
 En>         --number;
 En>     }

 En> or

 En> while (nu > 0) {fa *= nu;--nu;}

I know which I find more readable! :)

 En> it will both do the same thing, but one is so much nicer to read that
 En> the other.

 En> and once compiled that will end up being the same code executing in the
 En> same amount of time.

Yep, something that's easy to support and creates efficient binary code is a
good thing. :)


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