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From: dill@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Peter Dill)
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Subject: Re: AmigaBasic
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Date: 16 Jun 90 04:48:23 GMT
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In article <1990Jun14.042521.12222@agate.berkeley.edu> laba-1ei@e260-3c (Joseph Chung) writes:
>In article [#9 #9 #9...] dill@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Peter Dill) writes:
>>   Both Pascal and BASIC are totally lame languages and just encourge the
>>new user to waste time on them. As much as I like it, compiled C might be too 
>
>What is lame about Pascal?  True, with it's many rules, programmers often
>find their hands tied unnecessarily; however, it is quite superior to
>BASIC.  Can you describe lame? 
>
   There are a lot of well know problems with Pascal and there is no point
in going into them again, and Wirth was right to start fresh. To make
Pascal more useable various compiler makers all add their own fixes
meaning that Pascal isn't much of a standard anymore. 
   I think both these languages are pretty much languishing with good 
reason. It would be nice if there wasn't a necessity for the series
"Hack AmigaBASIC to get Feature X" articles in "Amazing Computing".

                                                     Peter Dill 
                                                     dill@cs.buffalo.edu
"Never send a monster to do the work of an evil genius"