Pascals Origins

[Kenneth Ng]

In article <2007 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, rbj at icst-cmr (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> 
> Unfortunately it teaches them bad habits as well. I was freaked royally
> when my brother told me years ago that there were no provisions for
> separate compilation. Everything in one source file, and they make
> people write large scale projects in it? Pure insanity.
I believe Wirth had said that seperate compilation was a tweak, and
that people should concentrate on faster compilers.  I guess he
changed his mind.

> The I/O is inscrutable to a wizard, much less a novice.
>From my experiences with Pascal I/O, I've found it easier to use 360
assembler and a real library linker/loader than to use Pascal I/O.
I've even found it easier (although non portable), to call Fortran
reads and writes instead of Pascal's.

> 
> Modula 2 was written to cover Pascal's mistakes. Perhaps Pascal was
> written to cover Lilith's mistakes as well.
And Ada was written to fix Modula 2's mistakes.

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