Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!im4u!suhler
From: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: C vs. Pascal for the mac
Summary: Hoare's comment on C
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Date: 16 Jan 88 14:48:50 GMT
References: <8801152323.AA06669@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <8801152323.AA06669@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>however, the better the programmer, the more prone to C he becomes.  The
>semantic structure of C more closely resembles the capabilities of modern
>microprocessors (read: 80x86, 680x0, uVAX-II), at least when compared to 
>Pascal...

Tony Hoare reportedly remarked that C isn't too bad a language,
except for the pdp-11 assembly instructions in it.

:-)
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Paul Suhler        suhler@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU	512-474-9517/471-3903