OT: This Swift thing

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com>:

> The original MacOS was written in Pascal (both applications and
> kernel). Being able to touch memory locations or registers requires no
> more than a few short glue routines written in assembler.

Pascal is essentially equivalent to C, except Pascal has a cleaner
syntax. I like the fact that the semicolon is a separator. Also, the
variable declaration syntax is done more smartly in Pascal. And the
pointer/array confusion in C is silly.


Marko