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From: davec@tektronix.UUCP (Dave Clemans)
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Subject: Re: Declaring argument types
Message-ID: <1376@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Sep-83 11:59:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 16 11:59:24 1983
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<Flame up>
I'm afraid I must take issue with any proposal to make C look like
Pascal, which is where this discussion is leading. Pascal is a
marvelous language to learn as a first language, it's got structure
and picky syntax and all that good stuff. Unfortunately, for any
practical purposes it is very unwieldy. I can see it now; we start
by allowing the arguments to functions to be declared within
the function header and in a little while, people will want to be
able to declare their arrays like foo[6..20] instead of foo[14].

I have written a small scheduler in modula (a pascal look-alike),
and I speak from experience. It has been said many times, but I'll
say it again: the beauty of C is that it is simple in its concepts.
Don't go cluttering it up with remnants of other languages.
<flame down>

Rick Lindsley
richl@tektronix
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