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From: mjensen@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Marc S. Jensen)
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Subject: 10 Reasons
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Date: 24 Nov 90 01:25:14 GMT
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I saw this in a magazine recently, and just thought you all might find
it amusing:


10 Reasons Why Pascal is Better than C, by Owen Hartnett
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1. Pascal, noble language as it is, was names after a famous French mathema-
tician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal. C was named after a Sesame Street
character.

2. Pascal's inventor, Nicholas Wirth, and parameter passing conventions
coalesce to form a nifty pun: You can pronounce his name by reference 
(Wirth) or by value (Worth). C was invented at Bell Labs, where they wouldn't
know a joke from a transistor.

3. There is only one Pascal, as defined by Wirth, while C has (shall we say?)
several fathers: Kernighan & Ritchie, Harbison & Steele, Barnum & Bailey, and
Laurel & Hardy.

4. In C, the following variable names are all different: thesame, TheSame,
theSame, and THESAME. 'Nuff said.

5. In Pascal, when you fool around with a pointer or handle, you know you're
fooling around with a pointer or handle. In C, you could be fooling around
with anything. C is the ultimate language for computational promiscuity.

6. In Pascal, we *know* how big an integer is.

7. C is used by liberal, Democratic, Mike Dukakis types of programmers. 
Pascal is a favorite of the GOP. Hey, we know what the big language at
Berkeley is, don't we?

8. C is the only language in the civilized world that still refuses to
recognize the $ sign for a hexadecimal constant and continues to promote
that base pretender to the throne: 0x00.

9. Pascal has well-defined rules for Scope, while C appears to be using
Listering. This accounts for the medicine breath of many C programmers.

10. In C, you can do this:

for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);

In Pascal, you can't do this:

for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);



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Marc Jensen
mjensen@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity!"