Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!tank!mimsy!eneevax!haven!adm!xadmx!jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu From: jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Give up on Pascal? Message-ID: <17718@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 6 Dec 88 07:20:05 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 24 NEVER !!! I'll never give Pascal up. I just started with C and it sucks (not to offend anyone who like C, thou -- this is my opinion). I like Pascal because its nicely structured and make my programming easy and straight forward. String work the way they should. Unlike C. [Sample. In Pascal we declare a string with var abc:string[5]; we are able to do abc:="12345". In C, I have to do; char abc[6]. Notice the SIX and not five. If I declared it as 5 and placed 5 characters in it, it will ERASE my next variable with a NULL. And what more, in C, it does not warn you.] Turbo Pascal ... here for years ... and here to stay ... -- J. Chin (a.k.a. Computer Dr.) ------------------------- Carnegie Mellon University ------------------------- 4730 Centre Avenue, Apt. #412 ARPAnet: Johnny.J.Chin@andrew.cmu.edu Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania 15213 BITnet: jc58@andrew.BITNET (412) 268-8936 UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!jc58 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------