Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!apple.com!chewy From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: The programming CULT (WOW!?) Message-ID: <9698@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 10 Aug 90 22:09:28 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 23 References:<1990Aug9.040707.15339@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <9649@goofy.Apple.COM> <1203.26c2f334@waikato.ac.nz> In article <1203.26c2f334@waikato.ac.nz> ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes: > 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. Semantic features or syntactic features? And what are they? __________________________________________________________________________ Paul Snively Macintosh Developer Technical Support Apple Computer, Inc. chewy@apple.com Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that I believe what they believe, or vice-versa. __________________________________________________________________________