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Jim Thomas <thomas@cfht.hawaii.edu> wrote:

>Simo Tuominen wrote:
>
>> >>Gene Wirchenko (genew@shuswap.net) writes:
>> >>>
>> >>>      Brian W. Kernighan, he of C fame, wrote an very interesting essay
>> >>> called "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language".  In it,
>> >>> he skewers Pascal but good.
>>
>> It seems the language is even worse than I had imagined, which is
>> probably attributable to my (lack of) experience trying to write
>> anything useful using it.
>
>Come now.  You can't take a few things which are bad (and make the original
>language unusable for real programming :-( and judge the whole language.

     Have you *read* Brian Kernighan's essay?  He has several
*categories* of things that are bad.

>C is lousy for teaching Computer Science.  Pascal->Modula->Ada are good
>for teaching Computer Science.  IMHO, of course :-)

     I'd prefer something a little more RW.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
     I have preferences.
     You have biases.
     He/She has prejudices.