[wellylug] Non-standard languages on Linux

Phillip Hutchings sitharus at gmail.com
Tue May 10 12:25:29 NZST 2005


On 10/05/05, E.Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> How about that ?
> http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.html
> 
> I did write some code 12 years ago in Pascal, it was quite good to work
> with...
> I most certainly missed the point, but what are the advantages of Ruby or
> Python compared to Pascal or C, C++ ?
> Thanks
> E

Try them. If you like them, use them. If you don't, then don't. It's
all in the eye of the programmer ;)

Personally. Garbage collection, full OO with a syntax actually
designed for it, advanced string manipulation and array operations,
less overall code. That's just my opinion though, everyone will view
it differently.

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Phillip Hutchings
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