4 May
2002
4 May
'02
6:57 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
"Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:
It could be argued that any language with line numbers is not a real
programming language, but merely, say, a beginner's all purpose symbolic
instruction code.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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My Data Structures prof lamented the fact (by his
observation)
that most people write Pascal in its FORTRAN subset...
10 C WHAT SUBSET IS THAT?
20 C MY GRIPE WITH PASCAL WAS THAT IT WAS ALL ONE PROGRAM
30 C EVERY FORTRAN AFTER II COULD HAVE MODULES DEFINED
40 C .NOR. COULD YOU EVER FIGURE OUT
50 C WHEN TO PUT A SEMI-COLEN .OR. .NOT. AT THE END OF A
60 C STATEMENT
100 STOP