Re: Pascal for IIgs...

[pg@sff.net (Paul Guertin)]

"Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com> wrote:

> In my opinion, which is almost certainly better informed than 99.99% of the
> people who will read this since I use and have written compilers for both
> languages, Pascal is not horrible, and is a better language than C for many
> if not most purposes. Learning programming is one of them. Developing
> desktop applications on the Apple IIGS is another.

The absence of "break" and "return" statements from Pascal often makes
things a lot more complicated and less obvious than they would need to
be, usually involving extra boolean variables.

Pascal does not even have a string type, which make it quite painful
to develop actual applications. That is why most so-called Pascal
compilers do not actually recognize Pascal but an unofficial superset
of the language.

See "Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language" by Brian
Kernighan for more:
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/pascal.html

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net