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What Was Your First Programming Language?
07-09-2015, 08:23 AM
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RE: What Was Your First Programming Language?
(07-09-2015 07:36 AM)Les Bell Wrote:  
(07-09-2015 06:53 AM)HrastProgrammer Wrote:  So, a language should not be extended? It should be left as invented in 1970. or something and if new functionality is needed - new languages with new names should be "invented" instead?

Well, in the case of Pascal - yes.

OK, if you say so.

Quote:Brian Kernighan agreed - see his famous paper, Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language, for a full analysis.

I can as well write a paper "Why is Pascal my favorite programming language" or "Why I am using Pascal for professional development during the last 25 years" etc.

I must admit that I don't care much about "why someone doesn't like something", and especially in 2015. I couldn't care less about what has been written in 1981., even if it has been written by Brian Kernighan, with all the respect. There are tons of things I don't like in C (or C++) as well, and would take Pascal (I am talking about today's Pascals like Delphi and Free Pascal) over C/C++ almost anytime, not to speak about various scripting languages with totally awkward syntax.

But I can agree with you to some extent - with RAD tools like Delphi the original Pascal language is just a small part of the whole development environment ...

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