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From: jmuller@Stardent.COM (Jim Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this Pascal program?
Summary: You asked the wrong question!
Message-ID: <1991May24.190430.129@Stardent.COM>
Date: 24 May 91 19:04:30 GMT
References: <5395@cernvax.cern.ch>
Organization: Stardent Computer, Newton MA
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In <5395@cernvax.cern.ch> myb@cernvax.cern.ch (michel bornand) writes:
>Here is a simple Pascal program...  What's wrong with it?

  [program deleted]

Pardon me but this triggered one of my pet peeves.  As far as can be told
by anyone who looks at your program and only your program, there isn't
anything wrong with it.  Is there anything wrong with how you used some
of the other stuff from the programming environment?  I dunno'!  You asked
the wrong question, because if there is a problem, it isn't in the Pascal
at all.  It is somewhere else.
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What's wrong with this?

program foo;
#include 'zip1.h'
#include 'zip2.h'
#include 'zip3.h'
main
{
};
(...yawn...oh, I forgot, AT&T changed /usr/include/sys/zip1.h last month,
so we need to put in a #define...or maybe we should leave it alone so it
will be portable and just compile wtih -D<whatever>...)
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What the world needs is a good set of rules, and enough exceptions that
nobody has to obey them.  Even better, let's have more Standards!  The
more Standards, the better!
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