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In article <1992Dec27.031740.27262@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
>In article <1992Dec25.073517.16089@grebyn.com>, malak@grebyn.com (Michael Malak) writes:
>> In article <1992Dec25.050515.20871@ncsu.edu> bank@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Belgarath the Sorcerer) writes:
>
>> >4) Even if you're not going into OOP, do NOT take up Pascal as
>> >    a road to C. ...
> 
>> Oh?  Have you ever seen C code written by a former FORTRAN programmer?
>> If so, by how many?  Universally you will find:
>>    1) Very short, illegible variable and function names, with the
>>       first character wasted (all integers must start with 'i', don't
>>       you know)
>>    2) No use of structures
>>    3) No linked lists or trees
>>    4) No whitespace
>>    5) Lots of illegible "creative" formulas
>>    6) No comments
>
>As one who learned FORTRAN first, I consider this a slur; were it applied
>to me directly it would be a libel.  The word `Universally' is used in
>error.

My error, and it is genuine, is that I omitted "self-taught"; i.e., I
was referring to those FORTRAN programmers who taught themselves C in a
vacuum.