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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can you nest subroutines in C?
Message-ID: <17894@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 89 17:52:08 GMT
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Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
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In article <395@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
>In article <17863@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>>Some versions of Pascal do allow this. Hewlett Packard Pascal does for
>
>Oh, please, let's not drag the rotting corpse of nonstandard Pascals
>into this.

For those of us who know about HP Pascal, no need to respond. I sent
Mr. Merritt a response via email explaining his mistakes &
misconceptions. Not a one of his derogatory comments applied to HP
Pascal. It also appears that Mr Merritt never learned enough of Pascal
and its capabilities to truly appreciate what it can do and why
nonstandard Pascals exist - but enough.

For those who don't know, HPPascal (9000 series) is not simply a
nonstandard Pascal, but is really different, looking remarkably like M2
with just about all of its good points and almost none of its bad
points - much better than M2 (IMHO). It is more a different language
that happens to be able to compile standard Pascal.  A language that I
wish could be available for the Amiga, but simply a wish. I am willing
to work with those languages which are available.

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       Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute
              kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
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       "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"
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