12 May
2005
12 May
'05
10:43 a.m.
Subject: Re: 'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!
From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:26:41 -0700 (PDT)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Again, I swore off Pascal because of the UCSD system. If I'd had Turbo
Pascal to learn on then things might've turned out much different. Of
course, Turbo Pascal required a CP/M card and a license. It was easier
for teacher to just copy UCSD Pascal ;)
Depends on the boxen used and it's storage limits. I had a NS* with
three 89k drives and that was adaquate to avoid swapping media. In
the end it was ok. Though it beat the Univac1180, greatly. The reason
was I was developing code infront of a H19 terminal with an anadex 80cps
printer rather than submitting card decks. My intro to Pascal in '79
was a Data Structures course with asm and BASIC as a "what I had before".
Pascal is not a bad language to develop in. But I much
prefer the
succinctness of C.
Pascal is OK. C on the other hand I found had some syntax odditites
that still trips me. I find C is like reading weather sequence reports
for the first time. I'll repeat that in that form. I fnd C rd wx sq rpts
trbl. It's often cryptic to the extreme and nearly as readable as
uncommented ASM. The OO versions are plainly pain.
Allison