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Subject: Re: In Defense of Apple Pascal
Message-ID: <3603@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 12:26:41 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  5 12:26:41 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 01:04:35 EST
Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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     I am not surprised that beginners would run into the 
     "procedure too long" limitation.  Beginners' programs typically contain 
     long stretches of straightline "stream-of-consciousness" code...  
       Dave Seaman

We had a "dinosaur" user who got the same type of diagnostic.  His program
turned out to be one 4000 line procedure!  (Yes, he was an EE...)  I got
the same diagnostic on a monster case statement later that year.

     No-the New() procedure does not work properly in Apple Pascal.
     Memory must be allocated using New() and released in a particular
     order or disastrous results are likely to be achieved...   
       Ben Priest

Isn't this really a problem with the release function?  I had understood
that standard Pascal didn't HAVE a release function.  I have always
programmed a free-list routine so records of each type might be reused.

Ben Cranston        ...seismo!umcp-cs!zben      zben@umd2.ARPA