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[Grant Edwards]

On 2023-01-02, Alan Gauld <learn2program at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/01/2023 02:14, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
>> I used PASCAL before C and I felt like I was wearing a straitjacket at times
>> in PASCAL when I was trying to write encryption/decryption functions and had
>> to find ways to fiddle with bits. Similar things were easy in C, and are
>> even easier in many more recent languages such as Python. 
>
> That's true of pure Pascal. But Thomas was talking about Turbo Pascal
> which had extra functions and features for all those "real world" type
> things. (And you could insert some inline assembler if all else failed)
> It also relaxed the ludicrously strict typing slightly. Turbo Pascal
> made Pascal a joy and I still use Delphi for Windows programming today.
>
> TP also introduced classes to Pascal (although Apple had already done
> so for the Mac and Borland basically ported the syntax to the PC).

TP was indeed a joy to work with. It made it trivial to do simple
graphics on an IBM-PC and it was FAST -- both to write in, to debug,
and in raw execution speed.

--
Grant