PASCAL as a system's programming language

[Doug Gwyn <gwyn>]

> 2) Notational consistency, especially with structures, arrays and pointers.
> 
> It's unfortunate that C is irrevocably brain-damaged by the lack of
> coherence and clarity as regards item (2). 

How about explaining what you mean.  If you're referring to the
equivalence of
	*(p + i)
and
	p[i]
then I have to disagree.  Otherwise, what notational inconsistency?
Structs (unions), arrays, and pointers are not the same things so
what consistency are you asking for??