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From: BOTCHAIR@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Alex Bewley)
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Subject: Re: Wirth's paper "From Modula to Oberon"
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Date: 20 May 88 22:10:28 GMT
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  As far a flaws and impositions of 'good' programming...

  Pascal was oriented at students.  It was designed to impose structured and
coherent programming techniques on the student.  I found that learning pascal
early in my programming career helped me enormously, and now I can move
to any other language with relative ease and write 'good' code.  Whereas, had
I learned C I would have been bred with a more cryptic sense of structure.
  I use Modula-2 extensively and have not found any really tragic flaws that
are major hangups.

      Alex