In the early days of the Pascal vs. 'C' debate, I was impressed with the amoung of discussion that was taking place about this feature and that, but the one thing on which most programmers seemed ot agree was that Pascal programs took about five times as long to compile as did the equivalent 'C' program. That, of course, was because the 'C' compiler didn't have to do as much. Some thought that the "less" done by 'C' was good. Others simply thought it was good that it didn't take as long to compile, since the compile-times were pretty long back then.

Most programmers wanted to compile their programs many times, since there were, after all, errors that the compiler could catch.

Back then, neither language was accompanied by source-level debuggers.

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