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From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Programming
Keywords: Programming
Message-ID: <2599@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 23:27:23 GMT
References: <339@mozart.UUCP> <850@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
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In article <850@etive.ed.ac.uk> jpd@etive.ed.ac.uk (Paul Dourish) writes:
>In article <339@mozart.UUCP> dlbaer@mozart.UUCP (Dennis L. Baer ) writes:
>>PROGRAMMERS,try the Structured Programming Language and you will have an
>>opportunity to switch to a language that is better than PASCAL and C.
>>SPL programs are easier to make portable to even non MSDOS machines.
>
>Wow, portable to non-MSDOS machines! Really? Yeah, I've always hated the way
>Pascal and C were entirely MSDOS-oriented. What could Niklaus Wirth and Dennis
>Ritchie have been thinking of? Sitting there, hacking away in their PCs...
>Paul Dourish,                           JANET: jpd@uk.ac.ed.itspna

I hope your kidding in that statement but just incase.

What are you talking about! C was NOT developed on a PC it was developed 
for Unix and is NOT MSDOS oriented! I don't know who's C you are programing
under, to make the C library function under MSDOS is a real hack just to
maintain compatablity with Unix. If your on a Unix machine and most News
sites are take a look at the C librarys and include files you'll be surprised.
Pascal was not developed on a PC either, it came to real life at UCSD.
I was programing USCD pascal before PC's were even a thought in IBM's
corporate brain.

						Jack Hudler

-- 
*OS2, what DOS should have been! Unix, what OS2 should be!
*Me thinks I give you enough information already.