Re: another C-like language? was Compilers :)

From	Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: another C-like language? was Compilers :)
Date	2023-01-11 10:49 +0000
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Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> schrieb:

> The "Variables at the top" meme may be something coming from Pascal.
> IIRC, in Pascal, compound statements aren't full blocks; they cannot
> have VAR declarations.

FORTRAN has had declaration statements (first version, DIMENSION
only) at the top of procedures since the beginning.  Algol 58
aka IAL had declarations everywere, while Algol 60 allowed them
only at the beginning of blocks.

> When programmers abandoned Pascal in the 1980s, they carried over this
> habit into C.

Probably, C just carried it over from the Algol tradition.

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