Re: [BLACKBOX] Years ahead of its time (reformatted)

From: [at]} <Chris>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:28:06 +0930

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>From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>Marc Martin
>Sent: Wednesday, 9 September 2009 4:23 AM
>To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>Subject: Re: [BLACKBOX] Years ahead of its time
>
>> And so, why is Delphi more popular than BlackBox?
>
>I always figured it was because it was more backwards
>compatible with the original Pascal... and that programmers
>didn't like some of the changes, notably:
>
> uppercase keywords
> case sensitivity
> missing WRITELN, READLN, etc.
> missing enumerated types
>
>Marc
>

(Aargh!!! Sorry - I'll have another try at posting this. Outlook removed
'Extra line breaks in this message' *!$?*!)

"programmers didn't like some of the changes" could just as easily be
replaced by the more general "people do not like change".

Looking at it from a different point of view, just imagine the howls there
would have been if Oberon had been developed first and then 'superceded' by
original Pascal:

1. missing module import facilities

2. missing inter-module validation

3. case insensitivity (searching problems, identifier clashes)

4. keywords clashing with user's identifiers

5. missing type extensions - have to resort to variants

6. hazardous 'goto' and 'with' statements

7. inconsistent syntax

8. missing dynamic arrays

9. missing null-terminated strings

10. missing 'step' in 'for' loops

11. dangling else statements

Chris

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