So-Called Real Programmers and FORTRAN - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Apr 2002

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  "Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:

  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? 
(* The subset wherein everything is type in UPPER CASE
   and no variable names were longer than six characters.  *)

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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. *)

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  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. *)

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  100 STOP 
END.

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