Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa 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 References: <252@gumby.UUCP> <535@ukma.UUCP> <258@gumby.UUCP> <4475@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Organization: North Coast Programming, Cleveland Lines: 16 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) -- Brandon Allbery, decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa, "ncoast!bsa"@case.csnet (etc.) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you)