From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,ec5e801e70a0a8f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec5e801e70a0a8f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ec5e801e70a0a8f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: tonyk@sseos.lbl.gov (Tony Konashenok) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/08/01 Message-ID: <4tqoru$kdn@overload.lbl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171435783 distribution: world references: <4t6hrs$kid@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <31FD4510.4150@voyager.co.nz> <4tkc4n$569@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Date: 1996-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: One of my pet peeves about C is REALLY poor diagnostics from the vast majority of compilers. Certain easily-correctable syntax errors cause a fatal error when they could easily be fixed by compiler and only induce a warning; many error messages point very far from the place where the error actually happened (well, it's mostly the language syntax that caused it, but compilers could also be somewhat smarter); hardly any compiler produces a cross-reference dictionary. Another serious limitation is that fixed-point numbers can only be integer. I can't count how many times I had to do dirty tricks to circumvent it. Pascal is better... but I am not into B&D. I vote for PL/I! Tony Konashenok Team PL/I