[9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL?

[D De Villiers <~ddevilliers99@lando.co.za>]

> Depends on what you thinks is a "major app" ;-) E.g., Pixel32 is written
in
> Free Pascal (pixel32.box.sk).

The terms "major app" or "minor app" doesn't really exist ! (both
understatements). In Pascal (any dialect) or in any programming language
(Forth, Java, C/C++ etc etc) can write both "major app" or "minor app" -
These * understatements* only refer to the complexity of the program in its
goal to solve the programming problem at hand. The more code you write etc.
the more complex the application gets...This is way techique like
module-programming, object-oriented programming (OOP) etc. has developed (in
all languages) to brake the big complexity of any application (or the
problem) into smaller parts (smaller problems).

Remember: Those old days when we wrote programs in GW-BASIC etc. Just a bush
of line-after-line codes...Reading or understanding those programs was a big
challenge (not even talking about debugging etc!) because they wasn't wrote
in small parts (routines, functions, units, objects etc). So you needed (at
that time) think about the problem has a owl (everything in considiration)
but now (this present time) programs are broken in small parts - Easy to
program, easy to understand, easy to debug, easy to maintain, easy to...etc.

Just may 3 cents ! :-))

Regards,

Lennie De Villiers

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