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From: justinb@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Justin Russell Bendich)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: Pascal versus C
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Date: 16 Jan 90 21:14:26 GMT
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Some reasons for preferring C to Pascal:

1) Berkeley Pascal does not provide an interface to kernel calls.  This makes
   unix programming extremely difficult.

2) Pascal has piss-poor string handling capability.  So does C (intrinsically), 
   but the necessary routines are standard.

3) You can get away with everything in C.

Some reasons for preferring Pascal to C:

1) It has set types.  Yes, i know you CAN implement these in C, but you have
   to.  Furthermore, they'll never come as naturally as in Pascal.

2) You'll never have a problem like a=1/*intptr opening up a comment.

3) You can get away with everything in C.