Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.lang.pascal Subject: Re: PASCAL as a systems programming langugage Message-ID: <507@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 15:16:50 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.507 Posted: Wed Jan 16 15:16:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 00:37:15 EST References: <571@vu44.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.lang.c:3929 net.lang.pascal:199 <> Seems to me that Pascal and Modula-2 (or extended versions of them) are well suited to a variety of things, perhaps including some system-level work. The discipline enforced is good for projects involving large numbers of programmers and especially inexperienced programmers. On the other hand, very experienced programmers will find C more expressive and faster to write. This is why C, in practice, has such a following. I don't think either school of language design has all the answers; it depends on what you're trying to do, and who's going to be doing it. -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary