| ??? 02/01/08 22:21 Read: times |
#150181 - Wirth-less Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Peters said:
Why hasn't Pascal been more widely adopted? ... because even Niklaus Wirth admits that it's good only as a teaching language? Only a very very long time ago, and Wirth has always pushed his latest and greatest - Oberon anyone ? Modula 2 ? Pascal is now a very powerful, bondage and discipline language, and the only way to write embedded '52 stuff in this company ! Delphi for everything else, and probably Free Pascal in the intermediate future. SO many "overflow" errors and injection attack techniques would have been thwarted by using sensible languages. Steve |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| The art of typecasting | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'd like to disagree | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| two comments | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Two comments on comments | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The Art of correct Constants | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| int - number of bits unknown | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Corrected Art of correct Constants | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| More assumptions | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| stdint.h | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Or, in the absence of stdint.h... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Const vs #define | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Opps! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| which may be a reason to prefer #define over const | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| enum | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Varies | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Know Thy Stuff - enum | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You are right | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Know Thy Stuff | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| And... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'll pass(cal) on that one :) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Everything in C defaults to int, which is signed | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Never overlook lint | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| before Steve says it... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pascal | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| strong typing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| why Ada never took off | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Wirth-less | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Why ? | 01/01/70 00:00 |