Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!husc6!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Icon, was:Re: Discussions of languages (Was: Re: Modern langauges) Message-ID: <2666@mmintl.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 88 23:35:50 GMT References: <1520@ogcvax.UUCP> <1522@ogcvax.UUCP> <2582@enea.se> <3315@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <17327@topaz.rutgers.edu> <6121@cisunx.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT. Lines: 13 In article <6121@cisunx.UUCP> wpnst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Bill 'Deus' Nixon) writes: >Even tho it allows structured programming, I love having not to declare >my variable. I hate compiling my PASCAL or Modula-2 program, and have >the compiler yell at me for not declaring some stupid counter variable. What I really hate is having the compiler *not* yell at me for mispelling one of my variable names, and having to spend (sometimes) hours to find the bug. The overlooked declaration can be fixed in a few minutes. It takes a *lot* of those to make up for one six hour debugging effort. -- Frank Adams ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Ashton-Tate 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108