can everyone seriously stop indulging Olin in his unpopular views of C? If
he doesn't see the purpose of using it let him be. Who cares, you're never
going to win against him and he loves having this conversation so just stop
responding to it.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:37 PM, William "Chops" Westfield <westfw@mac.com>wrote:

>
> 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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