Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To : Vk3jed
From : Ennev
Date : Thu Mar 30 2017 12:14 pm
> I find it quite neat, for the most part.
Cleaner to read than a bunch of {} %#%$ () () ;
Maybe it look less compact, but a code is brisk and small no because you typed
it compactly.
Remember demonstrating that years ago at a job writing the same piece of code
in Turbo Pascal and in Microsoft C.
We had a decompiler so we could see what both code looked like and at that
level it was practically indistinguishable.
And when you use Delphi the difference in the size of a .exe was dramatic.
Opening a windows with "hello world" with a button to close was like 15kb.
where the same in c# was like 250kb because of all the stuff it was
bundling in it and that with turning the debug mode at off in both cases.
So at the end of the day, it's funnier to support code in Pascal than C or
Java. You can of course type less compact source code in c or java but it's up
to the developer, when pascal forces you.
while (number > 0)
{
factorial *= number;
--number;
}
or
while (nu > 0) {fa *= nu;--nu;}
it will both do the same thing, but one is so much nicer to read that the
other.
and once compiled that will end up being the same code executing in the
same amount of time.
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