Guys could you give your opinion of whether Pascal is better or C++?

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anonymous · Answer

different purposes and strengths. I really prefer c++ for it's further expressive power (IMHO), but whatever works best for you and your project.

anonymous · Answer

C++ is definitely more powerful and you'll be able to do more with it. Pascal is fairly old and out dated in my opinion. It is good for learning programming, but not for modern day uses.

anonymous · Answer

pascal  is good for beginner in  programing but  in modern world  c++ is  more reliable  and  easy to use and  understand  pascal is so old and rarely use  in  some universities

anonymous · Answer

c++ its better for being object oriented. U can write better structured programs. U got plenty of libraries for it, its really used in the industry. U can make really good things on it. Pascal is old, but really good for learning because it is easy.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks guys! So I'll learn Pascal to begin with and then move onto C++ after I become familiar with the Pascal syntax. I had to decide on a programming language for my A/L computing and my teacher says that Pascal is the best to learn. It's really basic programming that I have to do, so I guess that there is no harm in sticking to Pascal initially.

anonymous · Answer

Pascal was designed for teaching programming, not for major software projects.  It is thus simpler and cleaner than other programming languages.  It is also fairly old, having been designed in the 1970s before the revolution of object-oriented programming. Pascal today is a dying language; it is not being extended or standardized, and I doubt that there are any new implementations of it.  For academic purposes it may be useful, but it will not help if you have a professional project to get done.

C++, in comparison, is a vast, complex language and library, and is probably the dominant programming language in use today.  It takes a professional programmer months to master the language and then months longer to master the libraries.  For a new programmer it is likely to be extremely challenging.  I don't think it should be anyone's first programming language.  C++ is still a growing, changing language, but is also full of quirks and downright bad features that one has to be careful to understand and limit or avoid.