On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote:
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20 C MY GRIPE
WITH PASCAL WAS THAT IT WAS ALL ONE PROGRAM
30 C EVERY FORTRAN AFTER II COULD HAVE MODULES DEFINED
(* Pascal had adherents early, but it remained a teaching
language until the early 1980s. Although Turbo Pascal
didn't permit modules, it did provide $INCLUDE files,
and depending on the application area, you could often
accomplish the same thing using includes. *)
// What about the "uses" directive? I didn't program in Pascal a whole
// lot but I remember when I did need something like a graphics library
// I "use"d it.
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