I think it is not a win or loose conversation. I love these conversations too as many times some very important thoughts pulled out of someones head that would never mentioned otherwise. Tamas On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Benjamin Grant wrote: > 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 >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 > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > View/change your membership options at > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.mcuhobby.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist