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From: kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!!
Date: 1997/11/19
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In article <64suum$5oo$1@weber.videotron.net>,
Jean-Sebastien Payette <jeanspayette@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
>John Rickard wrote in message <64sql2$k0@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net>...
>>why should I waste my time RE learning a language I have understood
>>and spoke since around 1-3 years of age?
>
>
>I've never learn english and I talk better than you.
>Now about Pascal and C let me tell you that in some case (strings and file
>manipulation, most object handling) Pascal is way better and I know both
>language (unlike you!!)

Standard Pascal is better at file handling than standard C? Hmm...
In what way, pray tell? 

Have the I/O facilities of _standard_ Pascal improved since Brian Kernighan
wrote that paper entitled ``Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming
Language?'' It's not sufficient for some particular _implementation_ of Pascal
to provide better I/O facilities, if they are not part of the generally
accepted language definition.

As far as strings go, Pascal's representation of strings as character arrays is
not all too different from the way it's done in C. I just remember it as
being less flexible. The last time I used Pascal, it was next to impossible
to handle dynamic strings.

If you are going to use a Pascal-like language, at least go to Modula 2 (or
even 3).