Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8 Feb 2010 at 18:42, Andy Holt wrote:
I remember the Algol-FORTRAN cross-pond war of
the 60s and 70s. :)
Now I wonder, "who won?" :)
The easy answer is "C" :-)
The curious thing is that the "structured" languages of the 70s
(Pascal and Modula-2) seem to have regressed to minority languages.
Humm, tell that to the Delphi programmers.....as Delphi is basically
Pascal with some extra beslls.
Ok I agree probably not as widely used as C, but still pretty popular as
far as I can tell.
And yeah I'm biased as I do do a lot of my code in Delphi/Pascal though
I also do a fair amount of C too, each has it's strengths and weeknesses
but something I learnt a long time ago is there's no one tool for every
situation.
Besides if we are talking about lines of code written I'd have to say
that probably COBOL would beat even C......
Cheers,
Phill.
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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.