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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: C Ternary Conditional Expression?
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Date: 5 Jun 89 05:24:05 GMT
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In article <50600002@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

><(Subject is the Pascal -C flame war).

>Pascal was designed as a teaching language

True

>essentially a toy.

False, but many implementations were toys.

>A so it is today: C is for secure grown-ups, Pascal is for the insecure.
>Test for the PAscal lover: translate all of Unix into (legal, ISO
>standard, with NO extensions) Pascal.

Well, all of Unix could be translated into the new ISO draft standard
"Extended Pascal" (with no extensions to the standard, with this
unfortunate name).

Test for the C lover:  do the same into ANSI C.

--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.co.jp@relay.cs.net)
  The above opinions are my own.   |  Why are programmers criticized for
  If they're also your opinions,   |  re-implementing the wheel, when car
  you're infringing my copyright.  |  manufacturers are praised for it?