While it has been a number of years since I last used Pascal (Delphi 5 or Turbo Pascal before that) -- I do like the language but I find the code syntax to be bloated at times. Maybe better to say harder on the eye when looking at large source code compared to C.
Of course - modern Pascal (Free Pascal, Delphi, etc) might have evolved a lot since.
// C
void some_func(int a) {
int b = a + 10;
printf("hello %d\n", b);
}
{ Pascal - Going by memory, so might be a tad wrong }
procedure SomeFunc(a : Integer)
var
b : Integer;
begin
b := a + 10;
WriteLn('hello ', b);
end;
I have been playing around with Odin for a little while, now. It may have been inspired by Pascal in a number of ways but it certainly isn't as cumbersome to write. I am liking the syntax much more.
// Odin
some_func :: proc(a : i32) {
b := a + 10
fmt.println("hello ", b)
}
