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In article <7PgacDA++Uk1EwKv@wandana.demon.co.uk>, 
jimbarr@wandana.demon.co.uk says...
>
>In article <35907028.BC9D8A@nr.infi.net>, Kenneth C Stahl
><kstahl@nr.infi.net> writes
>>I know how to program in Pascal, but I would never use it if any 
other option
>>were available. The main reason I would reject it is that the 
original
>>designer of the language never intended for it to be used as a real
>>programming language. Nicholas Wirth only intended it to be used as a 
teaching
>>tool. Some years after he designed Pascal he designed Modula/2 which 
was
>>really what he had intended all along. Some other minds came along 
and made
>>some improvements called Modula/3. It has all of the nice features of 
Pascal
>>and is also a correct implementation.
>>
>I suspect that you have never seen Wirth's pascal lined up beside 
delphi
>or even TP 7 ! ;)  
>
>There is no comparison, the semantics and syntax are basicly the same
>but the power and strengths are miles apart
>
>The original pascal did not even have a string type.
>
>The original pascal was very much a teaching tool, it was accidently 
the
>embryo for one of the most highly disciplined and well structured
>languages. 
>
>I started programing in Assembler, then BBC BASIC ( a super language 
in
>its own right) I have since had varying exposure to Modular 2, 
Fortran,
>LISP, C, C++, COBOL, VB, GPSSH,  Simula, etc..... and Pascal and 
Delphi
>
>A fairly reputable fellow I knew who made money from designing and
>implementing big systems, said that for speed and ease of development 
he
>would use C or C++ ( as appropriate) but if a project was to be
>maintained and upgraded by more than just the designer, he would 
ALLWAYS
>use pascal.
>
>BTW he had never used a GOTO ;)
>
pascal is hard for goto's anyway with tp how would you have it input
a command line argument? or return an error?
 are modular 2 and 3 as structured as pascal?
>
>
>>And who said you have to learn everything about C right from the very 
start.
>>I've been using it since 1983 and I'm still learning how to do some 
of the
>>more esoteric tricks that can be done.
>
>I agree with these sentiments entirely
>
>> It is a simple enough language that
>>someone who has never written a line of code can write a complete 
program
>>within minutes, yet it is so rich with features that it can be used 
for any
>>programming problem.
>Not sure about this one!  ;)
>
>>
>
>Cheers, Jim
>
>
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>
>Jim Barr        Machine Conversation
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>                       .....you can probably manage without one!
>

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