Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!mccuts!zzassgl From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2? Message-ID: <2916@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 20 Jun 91 07:16:14 GMT References: <1663@balrog.ctron.com> <1991Jun19.053127.29333@agora.rain.com> Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL Lines: 37 In article <1991Jun19.053127.29333@agora.rain.com> robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton) writes: > Maybe because Wirth himself is such a poor programmer? Ever seen the >code he wrote for the simple Pascal compiler? Ugly to the bone! (*$c+,t-,d-,l-*) (********************************************** * * * * * portable pascal compiler * * ************************ * * * * pascal p4 * * * * * * authors: * * urs ammann * * kesav nori * * christian jacobi * * * * address: * * * * institut fuer informatik * * eidg. technische hochschule * * ch-8096 zuerich * * * * * * last changes completed in may 76 * * * * * **********************************************) His name does not appear on the commonly available P4 compiler But, yes there is some really nasty code in it. Parts of the compiler aren't even legal Pascal! -- Geoff. Lane. Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc.uts UTS Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL