Re: About the C programming language...

From	"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject	Re: About the C programming language...
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Date	2014-06-09 09:25 +0100

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"Kaz Kylheku" <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote in message 
news:20140607191405.481@kylheku.com...

> Pascal and its ilk are just inconvenient implementations of the same 
> concept
> as C.
>
> Any Pascal program can be translated into C, while retaining essentially 
> the
> same organization of its code and data.

Only in the same way you can translate it into machine code.

Pascal has some very nice type-system features which, while you can write 
crude equivalents in C, you lose all clarity and type safety.

-- 
Bartc

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