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From: Greg Lee
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 18:18
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 18:18
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From article <208100002@s.cs.uiuc.edu>, by carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu: "... "I always thought that the 'no ; before END' part of PASCAL was one of the worst "'features' of the language. I can't count how many times I had to recompile "because I had added a statement before an END and forgotten to put a ; on "the *previous* statement. Having to remember 'put a ; at the end of a statement There is a style of coding Pascal that gets around this: while such and such begin do this ; do that ; for this and that begin stuff ; a statement ; another end ; let semi-colons lead the eye end It was suggested in an article in Software: Practice & Experience about, oh, 8 years back. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: What makes a language successfu Message-ID: <2832@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 14 Dec 88 18:18:51 GMT References: <208100002@s.cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 23