Re: Art of Electronics Rave - NON Politix! :-)

From: mc (mc_no_spam_at_uga.edu)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:15:05 -0500

"Nico Coesel" <nico@puntnl.niks> wrote in message
news:41eaee44.192038086@news.planet.nl...

> Whatever you do, don't use Delphi (Pascal). You're walking into a dead
> end street with Delhpi. Pascal and C are quite similar when it comes
> to the structure of the language, but C is more complete and elegant
> as a language. Borland / Inprise turned Delphi in some sort of a C
> clone anyway so why settle for less if you can use the real thing: C

Actually, I think Pascal is a much better-designed language than C, except
for lack of conciseness ("begin...end" instead of "{...}").

The designer of Turbo Pascal, Anders Hejlsberg, also designed C# for
Microsoft. That's a language with the syntax of C and the mindset of
object-oriented Pascal.

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