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From: ecl6895@ultb.UUCP (E.C. Loyd )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
Message-ID: <215@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 02:48:31 GMT
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Well, for starters, I would like to say that Pascal, in it's basic forms
is not what I would choose to program in.  However, I do most of my
programming in VAX Extended Pascal, and find that with the exception of
declaring external procedures/functions (and all that tedious header
information) that I have no problems with working in Pascal.

Now, those of you that say, "But what about the powerful C language?"...
well, I program in that when I want something to work, and don't care
who sees it.  In other words, if I'm hacking together my latest random
number generator, I do it in C.  If I'm doing a heavy duty data-base
manager with some file structures (internal or external files, it
doesn't matter) thrown in, then I do it in Pascal.

It depends on the application.