Re: Icon, was:Re: Discussions of languages (Was: Re: Modern langauges)

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From: Frank Adams
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1988 23:35

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In article <6121@cisunx.UUCP> wpnst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Bill 'Deus' Nixon) writes:
>Even tho it allows structured programming, I love having not to declare
>my variable.  I hate compiling my PASCAL or Modula-2 program, and have
>the compiler yell at me for not declaring some stupid counter variable.

What I really hate is having the compiler *not* yell at me for mispelling
one of my variable names, and having to spend (sometimes) hours to find the
bug.  The overlooked declaration can be fixed in a few minutes.  It takes a
*lot* of those to make up for one six hour debugging effort.
-- 

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Ashton-Tate          52 Oakland Ave North         E. Hartford, CT 06108

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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Icon, was:Re: Discussions of languages (Was: Re: Modern langauges)
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Date: 19 Jan 88 23:35:50 GMT
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