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.
