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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:36:44 +0200, "Rafał Maj" <r_maj AT poczta DOT onet DOT pl> wrote:
>
>AndrewJ <luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com> wrote :
>> On 9 Sep 2000 12:57:00 GMT, Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
>wrote:
>>
>> >: I have use Turbo Pascal for over 6 years, so now in C++  I'm often
>writing
>>
>> Hahahahahahahaha.... sorry... Pascal... hahahahaha...
>>
>
>1) In Poland (country in central Europ ;) ) Turbo Pascal is used in all
>schools for lerning programming.

I know what Poland is.  At the risk of starting a flame... I'm Canadian, not
American (not implying anything, just that Canucks seem to know more about
Europe than /most/ Americans).

>2) 6 years ago, on my 286 16 Hz it was quite difficult to compile anything
>in C++ ;)

Fair enough.

>3) Turbo Pascal works now on my 525 Celeron faster ten C++... 2000 lines
>program will compile and build in about 0.5 s in TP, and about 6 s in C++.
>When you compile program often, this difference is important.

Be that as it may, TP was written to be fast, but (IIRC) not a very aggressive
optimizer.  Same with the Borland C compilers.  GCC/GPP oto, are very good
optimizers, but that takes time.

>But I agree that it's imposible to write bigger programs in TP, especialy in
>standart (not Borland) version, with 64 Kb code segment limit. Ofcourse, C
>is much more flexible, portable, etc...

Yup.  Although I have seen some pretty neat things done in (Borland) Pascal.

>IMHO isn't so bad after all. It's useful for writting _small_ programs, and
>maybe for testing algoritms.
>After 6 years of using TP now it is something like... old friend maybe ?  ;)

Heh... I get that feeling when I go back to BC++ 3.1 every now and then (to
test compiler portability).

>Meany techers in AGH high-school (informatics, robotics etc...) still writes
>their programs in... Basic (normal, not Visual)  :)))

Ugh.

>P.S. in what language was Windows 95 written ? I think that most in C / C++,
>right ?

AFAIK, it's C and assembler.  I don't believe they used C++ for it.  OS/2 was C
and asm, so it makes sense that Windows was as well.

-- 
AndrewJ