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From: cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Anyone seen a good Amiga Pascal lately ?  Why not Modula-2?
Message-ID: <813@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 7 Mar 88 02:13:07 GMT
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Reply-To: cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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  Seems like first impressions have lasting consequences on
programmers...

  Peter, I'm curious, how would one implement a nested WITH in C?


  Oh, and another thing, let's say , for the sake of argument, that C
in it's present state, is superior to all other languages
(including M2), as a language definition.  Enter Joe Blow, who can
produce 10000 lines of code in TS 27 (Taco Sauce 27, a fictitious
language), the worst language definition.  Joe's friends persuaded
him to try C. It took him twice as long to produce the same code,
which doesn't run any faster.

  Now, should we force Joe to use C anyway?  The point is, it's
pointerless to try to typecast a hardcore C programmer into M2 or
any other language.  So use what works best for you own personal
brain (of course, you will!).  


  Is *anyone* going to be persuaded to switch languages?



  John