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From: lvc@danews.UUCP (Larry Cipriani)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pascal Origins
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Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 16:44:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 15 16:44:13 1986
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Shouldn't this be in net.lang.pascal ?

>Unfortunately it teaches them bad habits as well. I was freaked royally
>when my brother told me years ago that there were no provisions for
>separate compilation. Everything in one source file, and they make
>people write large scale projects in it? Pure insanity.

>No `otherwise' or `default' clause on switches makes them almost useless.

The version of pascal I used in college six years ago allowed both
seperate compilation of source file, and an 'others' clause on switches
(called case in Pascal I thought).
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