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Article #2333Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2?
From: Scott McMahan
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 17:12
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 17:12
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The look and feel of Wirth's languages is the exact problem
with them. While the theory is great, and I admire his modular,
structured approach to programming, I hate *typing* everything!
I mean, some of his modula-2 library modules have names that are
simply too cumbersome to use. I'll spare you the examples. They
lack a certain day to day comfortableness -- they are fine for
theoretical models, but not practical use.
and I *HATE* CaseSensiTivityInModulesAndProcedures! I never *use*
uppercase/lowercase names (:-)) but the library modules do.
To close: Which is better?
WriteString("Amount: ");
WriteInt(NumberOfThings[1]);
Write(".");
WriteLn();
-or-
printf("Amount: %d.\n");
From a programmer's point of view?
-- Scott McMahan
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