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beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:

[...]
>One advantage of Pascal over C is that the Pascal is
>embedded in the code and C is not (C must call standard library while
>standard Pascal can expend more directly some statements like the
>print (Fortran do the same).  

This is not true.

A C compiler may well expand calls to standard functions, like
	printf("%s\n",s);
with equivalent but more efficient code, eg.
	puts(s);
Indeed such compilers do exist, although they are not common.

See the recent discussion on comp.lang.fortran.

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