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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Language transitions
Message-ID: <590@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 23:39:43 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.590
Posted: Thu Feb  7 23:39:43 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 06:07:30 EST
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Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast Programming, Cleveland
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Summary: 

Pascal has two major problems:  (1) it was designed as a *teaching* language,
and (2) it was designed for batch systems -- the "PROGRAM FOOBIE(INPUT,
OUTPUT, BLETCH);" was intended to be linked to a file name via the CDC
version of a "DD" statement.

I think Pascal is great when used as intended.  I wish I could get my
hands on Modula for either my TRS-80 Model I or for our Unix system,
though; *that* language was designed for real world applications.

If anyone should be flamed for Pascal's unsuitability, it's the people
who first took it out of its intended environment.

Brandon (bsa@ncoast.UUCP)
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