RL> Bob Lawrence wrote in a message to Ron Lyth:

BL>> confirmed my worst fears about Pascal... it's a 
BL>> do-it-yourself language. 

RL>> well it IS a programming language.

BL>>   I may be naive, but what is a programming language 
BL>> without functions?  Pascal has the grammar, but few words. I 
BL>> have to keep inventing my own! 
--Cut 'n tuck------------

RL> the problem i have found, and this has also been confirmed 
RL> by MANY other programmers, is that, no matter how many 
RL> you-beaut functions/procedures you may be given, there will 
RL> always be something that doesn't work the way you want it 
RL> and it can often be more difficult to modify the behaviour 
RL> of what you are given than it is to write your own from 
RL> scratch. 

You could have used the bane of TP with graphics here as an example.. The
graphics lib with TP is great for a quick dunno what, but is next to
useless to do any real graphics work in. Bloated and of not much use beyond
graphics of a minor level. One of the reasons I think C is the game
programmers language. But then I have seen pascal do just as well as C when
using decent libs. Both C and Pascal need the help of assembler in this
reguard and pascal has a very competent built in asm component. Anyway good
to see I can still sit back and read mail from you.

--- Msgedsq/2 3.10