Op dinsdag 15-04-2008 om 10:21 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Marco van de Voort:
> > Linus also put (traditional) before pascal, just to make this clear. > So > > I don't see this as a 'rant on pascal', but just arguing with some > > examples of older languages that goto's could be good in some cases. > > I do see it as a rant if you raves on how it is used to torture > students > etc. A point could have been made more sec. > > However it shows again the image problem of pascal, cause by people > making > assumptions on old compilers during their student years, and keep > comparing > it to later ones forever. That's also what Linus says: "(Yeah, yeah, most _practical_ versions of Pascal ended up having all the stuff necessary to break structure, but as you may be able to tell, I was one of the unwashed masses who had to write in "standard Pascal" in my youth. I'm scarred for life)." > If even reasonably intelligent people can't escape from it, maybe we > are doomed. Those people are getting older and older, we just need a younger audience. ;) Joost. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
