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rrogers@cs.washington.edu (Richard Rogers) writes:
>  [C] also encourages the good practise of passing 
            ^^^^^^^^^^
>things the procedure needs to it as parameters.

I hate languages that "encourage" (i.e., force, by omitting capabilities)
someone's idea of what's "good" for me.  This is another of those 
religious issues that we won't agree about.  I think Pascal is not only
an incredibly bad programming language, but it's also a phenomenal
exercise in arrogance, because of how it "encourages" things.

P.S.  About lists vs. other data structures:  Early versions of Logo (before
there were microcomputers) had arrays.  Some recent versions have arrays.
The reliance on lists as the only data aggregate in most microcomputer
versions wasn't a matter of principle; it was the result of not being able
to fit everything into a 64K Apple.