Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Standard indentation? Summary: strange pascal programmers (not me) Message-ID: <362@ispi.UUCP> Date: 23 Dec 88 15:25:23 GMT References: <641@htsa.uucp> <2417@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc. Lines: 32 In article <2417@ssc-vax.UUCP>, dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes: > In article <6580@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, cquenel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Chris (i = --i++;) Quenelle) writes: > One of the first things that students in my C class who are reformed > ;-) Pascal programmers, want to do is this: > > #define BEGIN { > #define END } > > and a whole slew of other macros to make C look like pascal. > You must have some either very lazy or very stupid Pascal programmers in your class (no reflection on you). I too am a reformed Pascal programmer. As a matter of fact, I still program in Pascal. I also program in C. It would drive me bonkers if I had to look at my own C code which had Pascal constructs in it. It is bad enough that I still get the two languages mixed up occasionally (especially when I am working on a project which has both Pascal code and C code in it). I can not understand those programmers who try to fit one language into another. The difference between languages is what makes a language different. Changing a language to make it seem a bit more like an already-known language is akin to buying a Fererri and putting a VW engine in it because you know how to work on the VW engine. Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. -- life used to be so simple.