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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? |
| Date | 2019-09-04 16:15 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87pnkg149f.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <qi1fvh$2of$1@news.albasani.net> <qkjr33$d3u$1@news.albasani.net> |
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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