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Hi Tom, Hmm, OK. I stand (sit!) corrected. I certainly agree that the more "fiddly" the project is, the more "low-level" your language has to be to cope with it. I'm sure you already know that the more "low-level" your language is, the more responsibility is bestowed on the programmer…
Tom, The news is that C is _already_ much more proliferant than assembly because it's much easier to understand, and you get to do less work for the same result. The compiler does all the dirty work for you and looks after such things as registers and segments. Some compilers…
[Continued] C will also perform conversions from one variable type to another when it can, at times when pascal would throw up its arms in horror. This has its pros and cons. Sometimes the conversion is OK and your results are as expected. Other times a conversion results in the…
#Pascal or C++ ?
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Hi David, I dunno if this is any help, but here goes: I'm proficient in both Pascal and C (not C++). I've written large programs in both lanuages and if I were to make a choice between the two, I'd choose C. I learnt Pascal first and have about 4…