Re: LOGO-L> Numbers or Words?

[tlbelding@htcomp.net (Tony Belding)]

On 27-Jun-97, George Mills wrote:

> I worked in Pascal for about 6 years and loved it.

Egad!  I took a course in Pascal in college, and I loathed it.  Pascal is a
fascist language.  During the same time period I taught myself C, and have
been using it ever since.

Of course, C has become a fascist language too, ever since the ANSI
committee mucked it all up.  They added nonsense like stronger type
checking and prototypes.  Given a choice, I would code in Amiga E, which is
far more readable than C and enjoys polymorphic datatypes.  Not to mention
OOP, LISP cells, a blazing fast compile-and-link cycle, and other advances.
Unfortunately, I keep getting trapped into projects that require C.


> Switching from
> any language your used to can be painful. But after learning several
> you will begin to see each languages strength and weakness.

After learning a second programming language, it gets easier to pick up new
ones.


> Both Logo and Pascal have many Strengths and Weaknesses.

I am not aware of any strengths of Pascal.


> All I'm saying is to keep an open mind and don't look at strict
> type checking as problem but as a benefit.

How could it possibly be a benefit?


>Modula-2 is a follow on to Pascal.

And Oberon is a follow-on to Modula-2.


>Borlands Delphi is an Object Oriented Pascal which does incremental
>compiles on the fly.

Object-oriented Pascal is a strange idea.  If you're going to add OOP,
surely it should be added to Modula-2 or Oberon.  (Or does Oberon already
include OOP?)


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   Tony Belding
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