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On 2023-02-20 05:11, 25B.E866 wrote:
> On 2/19/23 6:53 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 19/02/2023 04:08, 25B.R866 wrote:
>>> On 2/18/23 5:11 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> On 18/02/2023 06:50, 25B.R866 wrote:

...

>    I still keep a multi-server smaller biz going, so
>    cost/benefit is always in mind. However do to
>    certain regulatory requirements "the usual stuff"
>    doesn't always cut it. I'm on the 4th gen of a
>    custom general backup pgm, most in Python, that
>    can take one job and send the data off to a few
>    different places in appropriate formats. Alas
>    each one died of 'feature creep' that made the
>    code unmaintainable. The likely final version I
>    re-did in Pascal and left out most of those cool
>    'features' that I discovered were NEVER used.
>    It's all MUCH cleaner now.
> 
>    Why Pascal ? Because lots of strings and string-parsing
>    is involved and I *hate* doing strings in 'C'  :-)

I'm also a Pascal fan. In the Lazarus style.

> 
>    Pascal is also a bit more "self documenting", quasi-
>    understandable names for things, less worry about
>    pointers-to and null-terminations and other such
>    landmines ..... and besides, there's an 'elegance'
>    to Pascal - I even loved the old multi-pass IBM/M$
>    compiler (and have it on a VM fer fun :-)
> 
>    Have never found a Modula2/3 compiler that'll
>    reliably work in Linux alas ... a couple are
>    supposed to work - until you actually try to
>    compile anything ..........
> 
>    Hmmmmmmm ... what ever happened to the "Short
>    Name For USB ?"  :-)

:-)

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.