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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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From: Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net>
Date: 23 Mar 2010 13:29:31 -0700
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Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:

> balson expounded in news:4BA8BA91.4050905@cherrystonesoftware.com:
> 
> > Andrea Taverna wrote:
> >> Hi folks!
> > [snip]
> >> In the past I used C, but now I have decided to change language.
> >> I'm looking for a "better" one.
> >>
> >> Here follow the features it should have, ranked approximately by
> >> relevance: 
> >>
> >> 0) open-source support and an alive community
> >> 1) directly compiled to efficient code
> >> 2) statically typed and object-oriented, better if multi-paradigm
> >> 3) general-purpose libraries (possibly standardized, either by
> >> standard or de facto), including containers and some math
> >> abstractions. 4) garbage collected. As an alternative, provide memory
> >> management policies via libraries (e.g. memory pools and such)
> >> 5) optional run-time checks and some kind of control over compilation
> >> and low-level issues
> >> 6) "relatively simple and consistent"
> > 
> >      Where's performance on this list?  
> 
> Performance is mentioned in "1) directly compiled to efficient 
> code".
> 
> > IOW, stay away from the likes of Java, C#, Pascal. Unless you
> > have a 
> > very specific reason for going in that direction. Your performance
> > will suffer.
> > Jim
> 
> I don't think many people would be surprised by these results.
> After all Java, C# and Pascal (variants) are still largely 
> interpreted  languages, even if they use some sort of compiled 
> intermediate code.

Pascal is not an interpreted language.  One of Pascal's selling points
was that it was one of the first languages that could be parsed by a
simple recursive descent parser without backtracking.

-- Patrick