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From: cdaf@iuvax.UUCP (Charles Daffinger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language (was: Still more new operators)
Message-ID: <6306@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 22:47:38 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <2718@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: cdaf@iuvax.UUCP (Charles Daffinger)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <2718@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>
>Any serious effort to design a successor to C (which does not attempt to be
>upward compatible) should first consider what should be taken out and/or
>done differently.  Adding new things is secondary.
>
[lots of oh, so familiar changes which just don't look like C...]

I think the language you want was already designed by Nicolas Wirth:  Pascal.


-charles

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