Was he right?
>>109592031Literally who
>>109592036Blaise Pascal
>>109592031Yes, pascal is superior to C.
Ah yes, Niklaus Wirth, the man who gifted the world a language so pure and structured it was mostly good for teaching undergrads how not to crash their homework. His famous pearl about C being a "hacker's language" full of dangerous freedom is adorable, right up there with claiming the wheel is too chaotic because it doesn't come with training wheels.Meanwhile C quietly built Unix, Linux, Git, PostgreSQL, and half the planet's operating systems and infrastructure, while Pascal's greatest hits include some early Apple toys and a pile of Windows utilities that most people have never heard of. Turns out "dangerous" code that actually ships beats "safe" code that mostly stays in the classroom.
>>109592031>quite frankly>quite franklywhat went wrong here
i believe so
>The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use FORTRAN. Quiche Eaters use PASCAL. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of PASCAL, was once asked, "How do you pronounce your name?". He replied "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the IBM/370 FORTRAN G and H compilers. Real programmers don't need abstract concepts to get their jobs done: they are perfectly happy with a keypunch, a FORTRAN IV compiler, and a beer.
borland had to extend pascal quite a bit to make it competitive with c. sadly due to closed source nature it never took over.but yes, to this day horribleness of c haunts computing:- no modules- no proper strings- no proper type checking- preprocessor disconnected from the language- undefined behavior
>>109592136but undefined behavior is good, C is a high-level language
>>109592031what an edgleord
>>109592309only if you enjoy nasal demons
