On Jun 14, 1994 at 20:20, david nugent of 3:632/348{at}fidonet wrote:

 >> Some nice features, but in the process, they (well, he) threw away some
 >> very decent Pascal features, too.
 dn>
 dn> Ah, but those "Pascal features" are not features of ISO Pascal

Oh yes they are - I was referring precisely to ISO Pascal, and *not*
Borland Pascal;  every time I wanted to implement something in Modula-2, I
could think of an elegant Pascal construct that would produce concise,
readable code, but that element had been removed from Modula-2 (I'd have to
go back to my books and old code sheets for examples).

Borland's Pascal is a PC-oriented language specific for producing useable
applications, not a generic language for "overall" (read,
portable) programming coverage of various problems.

 dn> Modula-2 is a brilliant language, and I prefer it by far to C.

Well, each to their own.  ;-)  I must admit, I'm being drawn by curiosity
into the object-oriented Ada 9X at the moment (have ftp'd the annotated
reference manual and draft standard - just need to find time to print it),
and feel that might be a more worthwhile language to know.


    - dave
    david{at}zeppo.nepean.uws.edu.au

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