| ??? 02/16/05 10:17 Read: times |
#87636 - 'Common' 'Popular' Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Anil Gupta said:
If C is more popular then Pascal(that too among highly technically & scientifcally skilled community of programmer & engineers) that means user are finding C tech better then Pascal. No, it doesn't. I use 'C' because it is the most widely available and supported. In many ways, Pascal is better - but that is to no advantage if you can't get the tools & the support! :-( Just like 98% (or whatever) of the world's PCs run Windoze - it's not on technical merit, just because that's what most people know. I once worked on a project that used Ada because it was "better" than 'C' - it was a pain, because the debug support was not available. But with software it is not the case. If people finds Pascal better and using & demanding it more then software vendors could have easily switched over to it. No, that is not true. How many people do we get here complaining about the cost of commercial tools? Comparable commercial Pascal & 'C' compilers would undoubtedly have comparable price tags - so it is costly to dump your expensive 'C' compiler and then have to pay for a Pascal compiler! Then there's retraining, and what about all your existing 'C' code...? I've worked on a project with hybrid 'C' and Pascal - it's a real pain. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| PASCAL Compiler For 8051. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Why Pascal. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Don't let Steve hear that... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| top 10 reasons | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Top 10 reasons why Pascal better than C | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| webpage moved | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Language advice | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| PASCAL... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ok No PASCAL. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| English Please, | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Language | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Language | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pascal for '51 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| industry standard | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| they did | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| leftwards | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| onwards | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ...in cairo | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ...in Russia | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Observations | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Left | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Change in Sweden | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| roundabouts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh come on! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Fair comment, but | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Order must be enforced | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| PASCAL is good but.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| personal responsibility | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The real problem is... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OMF | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OMF! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What idiot ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pascal | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| On the other hand... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Strong typing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ok | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Link for PASCAL compiler. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| PASCAL compiler for PIC. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| (lack of) strong typing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Power Tools | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Watch out....Tools in the Wrong Hands | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| pointers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Use the power in a smart way... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Star Wars | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Nice discution. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I mean "Nice argue" (my english stink) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| If Pascal it better than C then Why ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| VHS vs Beta | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Tech only one aspect &Who decides ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 'Common' <> 'Popular' | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The case | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Originally... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| what about the schools | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| teaching | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| True | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| My serve | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| verbose | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I did try Ada | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: I did try Ada (Ada still required?) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| teaching languages | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| not BASIC any more | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Strange | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It is hard to read for a reason | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Kturtle | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Delphi | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Windows vs Linux. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Linux/Unix vs. Windows | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| inertia | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Linux penetration | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| free? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Freedom | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| the meaning of operating systems | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Linux/Windows security | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The Morris Worm... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Is Linux Better for Micro/Embedded Sys? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Start a new thread! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| But Linx/Windos discuused in thread | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Valid but... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Windows vs Linux | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hmm, better? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 2 things - small & large embedded | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Size matters | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| no, it does not | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Real Time | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| paraphrase | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Exactly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| system vs OS | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "RT" qualifying the "OS" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Who calls their OS real time? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| the point | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Determinism | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Tools for the job | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| then why? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Why? Because... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| more likely the legal dept | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Foot Shoot'n | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| In the spirit... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh, my stomach hurts | 01/01/70 00:00 |