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In article <1992Jul20.203317.10143@esds.mdc.com>, bonney@esds.mdc.com (Greg Bonney) writes:
>I still like Pascal.  Everybody says, "it was originally intended only to teach
>people how to program".  And I say, "so what?"  C apparently wasn't "good
>enough" in it's original incarnation either.  Otherwise, why did they have to
>come up with ANSII C and C++?  And C does sacrifice readability in favor of
>flexibility.  The C "for" statement is especially weird; it's completely
>different from "for" statements I've seen in any other language.

The for statement may seem weird at first, but you can do neat things like this:

for(t=root;t!=NULL;t=t->next) puts(t->str);


to cycle through a linked list of strings, printing each as it goes.

Pascal would be something like:
 
t:=root;
repeat
  begin
    write(t^.str);
    t:=t^.next;
  end
until t=Nil


Sure the C is uglier looking, but an experienced C programmer would easily be 
able to tell what it does.  And once you know how for works, you don't have
to worry about using a "for", a "while", or a "repeat...until".  You can just
use the for statement.

Also, in C, I wanted to check a couple of bits at memory location 0400:0017.
All I did was:
 
if(*((char *)0x04000017)&3) ...

How would you do that in pascal?