On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> So show me something reasonable and useful you can do in C that you  
> can't in Pascal (again, I'm using Pascal only as a example because I  
> happen to know it well).

How about:
     /*
      * Our console uart is memory mapped
      */
     struct uart_type *console = (struct uart_type *)0x801000;

Please provide a pascal example that works with at least two different  
vendors' pascal compilers.  Of course, this is extremely "dangerous",  
but I think it's a fine example of exactly the sort of thing that  
caused less dangerous languages to be dismissed from consideration for  
"systems" programming.

BillW

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