Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Bob Worm
From : Dr. What
Date : Fri Jan 05 2024 08:05:32

-=> Bob Worm wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 BW> Certainly accurate in my case, at the very end of the 90s. I loved
 BW> Pascal back then and really couldn't see why people preferred C.

Because of Turbo Pascal.  Pascal was designed to be an efficient, one pass
compile, language and it lived up to it.  Turbo Pascal was a great tool that
produced efficient code.

But it had its limitations and by the time they corrected them, people were
used to C.


.... If only women came with pull-down menus and on-line help!
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