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The Natural Philosopher wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> 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

I got exposed, accidentally, to Borland's Delphi (Object Pascal)
when our group started using Borland C++. Found myself in the debugger
stepping through Pascal-like code.

Sic transit gloria Borland.

-- 
"I'm growing older, but not up."
		-- Jimmy Buffett