10 Dec
2020
10 Dec
'20
5:46 a.m.
On 12/09/20 12:42, Dan Stromberg wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:08 AM Bakul Shah
<bakul(a)iitbombay.org
<mailto:bakul@iitbombay.org>> wrote:
Ah .. but I don’t know if they did! The implication that Pascal
folks like complexity seems strange as Pascal is far simpler than
C++ (not much larger than C) and C++ is no more type safe than C
(both are less type safe than Pascal). Anyway I will stop now!
I was one of the people who happily left Pascal behind to move to C.
But in retrospect, I think the computing world would've been better
off with Pascal, modified slightly to allow passing variable-length
arrays (like TurboPascal).
As Wirth wrote, in retrospect he should have called it Pascal-2, not
Modula-2. [COFF, COFF]
N.