Files
In C files do not exist as a built-in type (they are defined in a system header) and all I/O takes place via library calls. Pascal has file handling built into the language.
The typical statements used to perform I/O in each language are:
printf("The sum is: %d\n", x); writeln('The sum is: ', x);The main difference is that C uses a "format string" that is interpreted to find the arguments to the printf function and convert them, whereas Pascal performs that under the control of the language processor. The Pascal method is arguably faster, because no interpretation takes place, but the C method is highly extensible.
Read more about this topic: Comparison Of Pascal And C
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