Re: choosing a teaching language, was Java compiler courses

Chris Smith wrote:


>>The same for C++ or Java, these also are useless without additional
>>libraries, [...]
>
>
> Huh? I'm trying to figure out where you're coming from here. Really,
> really trying... and it's not coming to me. Did you really just claim
> that Java has too FEW standard library routines, but Pascal is fine?


After an hint from our esteemed mod I had to revise my opinion. In my
Pascal docs I found about 40 symbols (types, constants, functions),
which are not part of the Pascal syntax. I missed to remember these,
because some of them (Read, WriteLn...) are compiler magics, and as such
IMO are part at least of the semantics of the language.


Apart from that small system library nothing else is required to start
writing programs in Pascal. That was my point in comparison to other
languages, where the coder has to master much bigger libraries, before
he can start writing programs.


DoDi

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