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>>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.
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>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? 

this is one way (there are others, as I can think of two more)

var blah:longint absolute $0400:$0017;

begin
 if blah=3 then InsertSpiffyProcedureNameHere; {Or whatever...}
end.

--Mark Iuzzolino	      | "What do you mean you found a way to store
   President, Ashgon Inc.     | memory in locations smaller than a bit?" --A 
   CEO, Fantasy Squared Inc.  | very confused teacher.