Pascal - What is the use?

[iKlsR]

it says in the wiki that it means that one should expect to put a variable there... so its more of a aid than a hinder and it is in some weird way relevant...
var age : byte;

begin../...
age:= 12;

remember that it is the simplest language out there and is aimed at beginners... yh the syntax is a bit crappy and the data types are drab but its ok... as i said before... it has as much functionality as C... its only lacking Object Oriented Programming(classes../..).

alot of pascal code can be translated to C++ and it was my knowledge of C/C++ that made pascal a breeze to learn... its handles are simpler than C/C++ (picture this_

#Pascal
Uses Crt; //calls on the graphics..//..
clrscr; //clears the screen

#C++
// clears the screen(hideously long function that clears the entire dos window and brings the cursor back to the default position)

void clrscr(char character); //function header

void clrscr(char character) //function itself
{
HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); //calls the graphics...
COORD coordScreen = {0, 0};

DWORD cCharsWritten;
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
DWORD dwConSize;

GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);
dwConSize = csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y;

FillConsoleOutputCharacter(hConsole, (TCHAR) character,
dwConSize, coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);

GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);

FillConsoleOutputAttribute(hConsole, csbi.wAttributes,
dwConSize, coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);

SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole, coordScreen);
}

and i could go on and on... just leave pascal alone... its for noobs

[omik_1]

Delphi is the best for me so far.

[carey]

I think the syntax is a nightmare. Why := when you can easily use = which makes more sense?

Saw similar syntax in Google Go. It allow to declare and use a variable in the same breath.

http://tour.golang.org/#12

They call it short assignment.