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Re: Is Pascal utterly useless?

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Subject Re: Is Pascal utterly useless?
Date Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:15:56 +0100
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Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> writes:

> Peter Percival wrote:
>> Does ISO 7185 Pascal require program source to be just one file?  And
>> if it does, doesn't that make it an utterly useless language?
>
> Another thing I don't like about Pascal is its dishonesty.  One cannot
> write in Pascal a function like Pascal's write.  How dare the language
> designer help himself to facilities that he denies users?

I feel you pain, but you sound more exercised by this than it really
merits!  There's an excellent book (old now) that compares languages by
examining the extent to which they could implement their own IO
facilities.  It's a very revealing point of view.  Sadly I can't
remember anything else about it.

-- 
Ben.

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Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-02 15:05 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-08-02 15:57 +0000
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-02 17:55 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-08-02 23:07 +0100
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-03 15:58 +0100
      Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-08-06 15:57 +0100
        Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-08-06 16:55 +0000
        Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-07 14:33 +0100
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-03 14:58 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-08-02 16:56 -0700
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2019-08-03 09:33 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 06:43 -0700
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-07 15:13 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-02 20:38 +0100
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-09-02 16:02 -0500
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-04 16:15 +0100
      Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-06 19:28 +0100
        Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-08 15:12 +0100

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