🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

I agree, TP is a great version of Pascal, far greater than standard pascal,
which i do this is not worth even looking at (for just about any reason),
but I also agree that C and C++ are quite worthy of their existance.
I am an avid TP, C, C++ programmer...

BUT about the "for" statement in C/C++.  Yes it is especially weird,
but anyone with programming experience knows that one of the most used
constructs is:

   initialization;
   while (expression) 
      stuff
      increment;

which C NICELY compacts to:

   for (initialization;expression;increment)
      stuff

I use this in every (not really exagerating) program that I write.  I think
it is sooo much handier than the first way to do it.

Kevin
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            Kevin Dorff
            kdorff@nmsu.edu