Re: LOGO-L> Pascal, Numbers or Words?

[tlbelding@htcomp.net (Tony Belding)]

On 28-Jun-97, Andrzej Baczynski wrote:

>After some years of earning for life with programming, I'm not sure which
>are better. Those "liberal" ones seems to bo more productive. On the other
>hand, Pascal has something like an "european soul" in opposition to C which
>is 100% american. For this reason, I think, Pascal was a favourite way to
>deal with computers for me for many years.

Maybe that's why I like C, since I am 100% American.

>Tony may call it "fascist", but I would leave this adjective for use to
>those, who really had faced fasism - as long, as they live among us.

Actually, I wasn't the first one to describe Pascal as a fascist language.
Dave Small, creator of Magic Sac and Spectre GCR, said that first.  But
then, he was a die-hard assembler coder.  Anyhow, it's just a metaphor.  I've
also heard such languages referred to as "bondage and discipline" languages --
an even more colorful yet less politically charged metaphor, I think.

Genuine fascism is alive and well in the world, unfortunately.  But this is
not the appropriate forum to discuss that.

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   Tony Belding
   http://hamilton.htcomp.net/tbelding/

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