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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pascal
Message-ID: <6138@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 09:30:29 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.6138
Posted: Sun Nov  4 09:30:29 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 04:48:46 EST
References: <211@oliveb.UUCP>
Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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Summary: 

In article <211@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>         One can't write compilers, editors, linkers, or operating
>systems with standard Pascal because it is so over protective.

Huh?  The very first Pascal compiler was written in Pascal (even in a
RESTRICTED SUBSET, actually).  So were most Pascal compilers since.
I sould say that none of the types of system programs you mention
need be hampered by Pascal's (not OVER) protection, except for
operating systems (kernels, actually).

--
	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
	guido@mcvax.UUCP

"The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct."