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06/14/07 19:24
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 		 #140797 - Scary thought for the day.
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Jeff Post said:

Since most embedded developers would opt for power and control over safety,


And ain´t that a SCARY thought. I program exclusively in Pascal and Delphi, and I have never hit something I couldn´t code.

In Pascal when you code at the metal, you know exactly what you are doing. In ´C that isn´t true, the compiler thinks it knows what you want to do.

Steve




List of 30 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
week(almost)end survey: Pascal            01/01/70 00:00      
   I think that it is a simple case of "who came firs            01/01/70 00:00      
      And what makes up that dominancy?            01/01/70 00:00      
         impossible - sorry            01/01/70 00:00      
            hummm            01/01/70 00:00      
         "Real men don't use PASCAL"            01/01/70 00:00      
   C Has Momentum            01/01/70 00:00      
   C and Pascal            01/01/70 00:00      
      Scary thought for the day.            01/01/70 00:00      
         Not really            01/01/70 00:00      
            I did not want this sort of discussion...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Times change            01/01/70 00:00      
                  ...and no newborn embedded programmers anymore?            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Shame            01/01/70 00:00      
                        dinosaurs? :-(            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Nah ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     I have heard many times that Betamax was better th            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Just a minute ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Language evolution            01/01/70 00:00      
                              missing features            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Dim and distant past            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    OOP            01/01/70 00:00      
                                       PC and fat embedded OOP            01/01/70 00:00      
                                          OOP assembler            01/01/70 00:00      
                                             Russ beat me to it            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    Delphi            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Wasn't it just the compile times?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Selling points:            01/01/70 00:00      
      FreePascal            01/01/70 00:00      
      OH NO            01/01/70 00:00      

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