On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:55:05PM -0500, Nate Straz wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > And don't get me started on pointer in Pascal or I/O in Pascal... > Most of my problems come from knowing and loving C. I approached Pascal open-harted. > <devil's advocate> > What's wrong with pointers in Pascal? Pascal was my first exposure to > pointers and I think it made the transition into C easy. Sure, it took > be a while to get the hang of pointers and trees and linked lists, but I > was only 16 at the time. They are more like references: you can't add constants to pointers, and you can't do a lot of wizardries. And "string"? Oh, please... Strings of at most 255 chars. And conversion between chars and integers were a pain - "ord" / "chr". > I didn't think there was anything wrong with I/O in TP. It has been > quite a number of years since I did anything with I/O in TP. What was > your problem exactly? > </devil's advocate> After the logical "open" / "close" / "read" / "write" from the C library, "Assign"/"Reset" and what read and write were called made me puke. > The one thing I miss the most about Pascal and the Pascal community is > monthly issues of SWAG. That's the SourceWare Archival Group's Pascal > snippet libraries. I would always grab it and compile all the new > graphics hacks to see what was new a cool. Ah the old days of Pascal > and BBSes. I don't have any knowledge about SWAG... florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4