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From: chi@tybalt.caltech.edu (Curt Hagenlocher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The programming CULT (WOW!?)
Message-ID: <1990Aug11.022446.29404@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 90 02:24:46 GMT
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In article <9698@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
>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?

The ability to nest procedures in Pascal is something to which
nothing in C is analagous, or even close.

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chi@tybalt.caltech.edu		Curt Hagenlocher
Disclaimer: Pascal? I don't know Pascal...