Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To   : Ennev
From : Deavmi
Date : Thu Mar 30 2017 10:25 pm

On 2017-03-30 06:14 PM, Ennev wrote:
>  > 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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