26 Apr
2002
26 Apr
'02
10:20 a.m.
"Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:
(* The subset wherein everything is type in UPPER CASE
and no variable names were longer than six characters. *)
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
(* 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. *)
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
(* Oh, IIRC, the semicolon is a STATEMENT TERMINATOR in Algol;
in Pascal, it's statement seperator. That should make it clear. *)
100 STOP
END.
-Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"]
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26 Apr
26 Apr
7:19 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:20:35PM -0400, Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote:
Never mind a program written in the FORTRAN subset of Pascal --
there are programs that are FORTRAN and Pascal at the same time.
(You can run them through either kind of compiler. Each compiler
ignores the other language.)
The record holder is COBOL, Pascal, FORTRAN, C, PostScript, sh,
and MS-DOS 8086 executable.
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/poly/polyglot.htm
-- Derek
"Douglas
H. Quebbeman" wrote:
(* The subset wherein everything is type in UPPER CASE
and no variable names were longer than six characters. *) 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? 
4 May
4 May
9:59 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote:
function reply(void)
{
// 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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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. *) 100 STOP
END. 
6 May
6 May
2:50 a.m.
Not in the original standard (from N. Wirth, may you pronounce him by
value or by reference or by whatever... ;-), so this must have been an
extension from your compiler's manufacturer.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
// 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.
--
Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com
4:38 a.m.
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Andreas Freiherr wrote:
Not in the original standard (from N. Wirth, may you
pronounce him by
value or by reference or by whatever... ;-), so this must have been an
extension from your compiler's manufacturer.
It was in UCSD Pascal (on an Apple ][).
Anyway, Pascal blows.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
> // 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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