Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!ra!chyde!ts
From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Standard Pascal
Message-ID: <621@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 30 Jun 89 21:30:09 GMT
References: <8616@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <8616@pyr.gatech.EDU> mlw@pyr.UUCP (Michael Williams) writes:
>Borland obviously left get and put out of turbo pascal for a reason.
>Can anyone tell me why get and put are better than read and write?

Because get and put fulfil an elusive pascal standard, and are much
more difficult to use than TPs read and write.  So a computer
science class can linger on their principles :-)

Slightly more seriously, it is obviously true that the search for a
standard pascal compiler for teaching programming principles and the
usefulness of a compiler (such as TP for PCs) are two quite distinct
matters (although I have never really accepted this myself). 

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