PASCAL as a systems programming langugage

[D Gary Grady]

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Seems to me that Pascal and Modula-2 (or extended versions of them) are
well suited to a variety of things, perhaps including some system-level
work.  The discipline enforced is good for projects involving large
numbers of programmers and especially inexperienced programmers.

On the other hand, very experienced programmers will find C more
expressive and faster to write.  This is why C, in practice, has such a
following.

I don't think either school of language design has all the answers; it
depends on what you're trying to do, and who's going to be doing it.


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D Gary Grady
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