6 Jul
2021
6 Jul
'21
10:44 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 10:37 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 2:29 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
That's true. You could do things in Turbo Pascal you couldn't do in
standard Pascals. It was close enough to C that a lot of system level code
was written in it. A bit verbose, but serviceable.
Warner
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:16 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think language designers since Pascal have learned from Pascal's mistake
there.
Supposedly even Borland's TurboPascal had better strings than vanilla
Pascal.
A null-terminated array of char is a petri dish.
A proper string type
is more like a disinfectant.
Hrrmpt.... maybe (in theory), but I can say that never seen it really
work in practice -- bwk in Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming
Language <http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html> describes much
of the practical realities of this sort of choice: