Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> What would be your suggestion as to what's better? And don't say
> "Pascal", because we all agree that "the" Pascal is not usable. So you
> need to specify exactly which Pascal... and here the trouble starts.
> There is not a usable Pascal... there was Turbo Pascal, there is Delphi,
> there is Apollo Pascal, there is this and that Pascal -- not a good
> starting point to argue for adoption of "Pascal".

I used Pascal only as a example because it does have a lot of the constructs
designed better than their C equivalents and I happen to be familiar with
it.  What I'd like to see is vendors innovating.  We haven't seen real
innovation in reaonably available commercial languages for some time.  Most
of your argument is that we're stuck with C because there is no viable
alternative, which is true but not the point.

The question is how to get out of this rut.  It will never happen without
large numbers of programmers complaining loudly about being forced to use C
whenever that occurs.


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