Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

benibela

I have been rewriting things in Pascal for years, because it is much safer than C, and no one cares about that :(

View on HN

That's awesome though!

Somehow this feels like sarcasm, given that Pascal is older that pretty much everyone on this forum.

The novelty of a tool is not directly correlated to its worth, because we can always make new, worse tools.

Newer tools CAN make use of new information in a better design, but it doesn't always happen.

Seriously: https://github.com/benibela?tab=repositories

I have been doing it for 20 years, and all the time Pascal had null-safe strings and C-like performance. And the strings even had mutability xor aliasing with copy on write

Imagine an alternative reality where Borland did not went greedy, Java 1.0 would just be like Go, while .NET Native would just be improved VB 7 and a new language C# (just a kind of "managed C++") making COM developer friendly without C++ boilerplate that persists to this day.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com