On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> "Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:
>
> > My Data Structures prof lamented the fact (by his observation)
> > that most people write Pascal in its FORTRAN subset...
>
> 10 C WHAT SUBSET IS THAT?
> 20 C MY GRIPE WITH PASCAL WAS THAT IT WAS ALL ONE PROGRAM
> 30 C EVERY FORTRAN AFTER II COULD HAVE MODULES DEFINED
> 40 C .NOR. COULD YOU EVER FIGURE OUT
> 50 C WHEN TO PUT A SEMI-COLEN .OR. .NOT. AT THE END OF A
> 60 C STATEMENT
> 100 STOP
It could be argued that any language with line numbers is not a real
programming language, but merely, say, a beginner's all purpose symbolic
instruction code.
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