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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pascal (might have once been Re: for(;;) vs. while(1) is a draw)
Message-ID: <409@newave.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 90 03:25:38 GMT
References: <5876@buengc.BU.EDU> <12955@smoke.BRL.MIL> <5879@buengc.BU.EDU> <1751@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <3104@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
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In article <3104@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <1751@tkou02.enet.dec.com>, diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>: 1>	program main;
>--------------------^ (output) should be declared because it is used!

>: >(I count three violations of the Pascal Standard.)

This has very little to do with "C"--but there can still be a lesson in
this.  By far, the largest installed base of Pascal is Turbo Pascal.  As
a result, the standard has little to do with most Pascal code.

There are also C programmers in this situation.  One of the machines I
write code for has no concept of a file, terminal, error handling, and
it does not allow the programmer to define a "main" procedure.  This
kind of makes most of the "standard library" useless and the C code
is quite unique to that machine.  I sure hope my review is not based
on my conformance to the "standard".

-john-

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