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   Marco van de Voort to "@lmcinvestments.com   
   Re: Why Delphi and C++ ...??   
   31 Aug 05 06:44:58   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-08-30, Hanford Carr <"hwcarr"@lmcinvestments.com> wrote:   
   > Robert Bralic wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Dear,   
   >>   
   >> Escouse me if this is not approporiate group for this   
   >> question.I want to ask two question:   
   >> 1) Why Pascal and C ,(diference is only in way of calling,   
   >> these are same languages except that in Pascal you use :"begin, end...",   
   >> and in C :"({}...",booth have pointers and everything that have C have a   
   >> Pascal...   
   >> 2)The same as 1, but why Delphi and C++ when difference is  same as in 1)...   
   >>   
   >>                                                       Thanks ina advance,   
   >> Robert !!!   
   >   
   > Hi   
   >   
   > 1)   
   > The FOR construct of C is superior to the FOR of Pascal, but that's   
   > about it.   
      
   Actually, the for construct of C is a short notation of a while loop, so it   
   doesn't add much. And it is less optimal. (IIRC Pascal's definition of FOR   
   includes non assignments of loop var, that allows more optimization)   
      
   > Pascal has strings!   
      
   Std pascal not. array of char.   
      
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