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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:14:22 +0000
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On 13/02/2025 16:03, John Ames wrote:
>   Pascal,
> on the other hand, gets no performance advantage, while burdening the
> programmer with all the bookkeeping that is*necessary*  for safety in
> languages like C, even though it keeps all the information needed to
> provide a less burdensome, more convenient alternative. Truly deranged.

My one and only experience of Pascal was trying to interface with a 
pseudo ram disk. It proved impossible to read a sector and then use two 
bytes here as 16 bit address - a byte there as something else and then 
maybe the whole sector as a data sector.
I rewrote it in C and just cast pointers into the sector to pick up 
whatever I needed.

Will never ever touch Pascal again. Heap of shit for rank amateurs
-- 
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the 
other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

—Soren Kierkegaard