Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow you. I at least never doubted that almost
> everything that can be done with C can be done with any reasonable
> Pascal dialect.

Others do seem to doubt it though.  One of the technical arguments that
several people have made here recently is that you can "do anything" in C,
implying you can't do it in other languages.

> (FWIW, I think the main thing that C has that's missing from even
> decent Pascal dialects is the precompiler.

I agree.  A preprocessor can be a powerful addition to any language.

> But you're talking about popularity, availability.

No, I'm specifically not.  I understand how C got where it is and that today
you have to use it regardless of technical merits.  The part I'm trying to
point out is that C sucks technically, because too many sheeple use C and
don't see a problem with that.  I'm not saying there is a handy solution
because I don't see one either.  But the realization that it would be nice
if there was one is something too many people haven't made yet, and that's
what I'm trying to get them to see.  There are still people in this world
that actually *like* C (and I don't mean in the business sense), as
evidenced by several of the responses here.

> This is the thing you seem to get confused. The reason why C is more
> popular has nothing to do with computer science concepts,

No, in fact I've been trying to point that out.


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