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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What makes a language successfu
Message-ID: <2832@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 88 18:18:51 GMT
References: <208100002@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
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From article <208100002@s.cs.uiuc.edu>, by carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu:
"...
"I always thought that the 'no ; before END' part of PASCAL was one of the worst
"'features' of the language. I can't count how many times I had to recompile
"because I had added a statement before an END and forgotten to put a ; on
"the *previous* statement. Having to remember 'put a ; at the end of a statement

There is a style of coding Pascal that gets around this:

	while such and such
	begin	do this
	;	do that
	;	for this and that
		begin	stuff
		;	a statement
		;	another
		end
	;	let semi-colons lead the eye
	end

It was suggested in an article in Software: Practice & Experience
about, oh, 8 years back.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu