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Article #5631Re: Pascal vs. Algol (Was: Algol 60 vs Algol 68 (was "stack machines (Burroughs)"))
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1988 13:16
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1988 13:16
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In article ... pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
> I would claim different: that the reasons that PASCAL are (was) so
> popular include:
> + Simplicity: can be implemented reliablly.
This is definitely #1. It was designed to be easy to implement.
> + Defintion: There is a good standard to adhere to.
Why doesn't anyone adhere to it, then? The MOST popular Pascal out there
isn't a proper superset of *any* of the Pascal standards.
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