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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The programming CULT (WOW!?)
Summary: Pascal vs C again
Message-ID: <1203.26c2f334@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 10 Aug 90 05:47:32 GMT
References: <1990Aug9.040707.15339@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <9649@goofy.Apple.COM>
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In <9649@goofy.Apple.COM>, chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) says
"Semantically, there are no significant differences between Pascal and C".

Untrue. There are some important ones. It's true that the standard
Mac Pascal dialect easily matches C in its ability to do low-level
stuff. But Pascal also has some high-level features that have no C
equivalent.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-71-562-889
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