From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How do I compile Pascal and Fortran programs?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:18:40 -0500
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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> But Pascal wasn't seriously intended as a programming language:  it
> was only devised to disprove a conjecture, namely, that a programming
> language requires a "goto" statement.  Pure Pascal isn't even all
> that powerful.  It just accidentally happened to catch on because
> vendors' extensions (plus a dash of inline assembly) gave it enough
> power to be almost a usable language.

    Pascal was designed by Austrailian Universities as an educational
language, but when these students graduated with knowledge of that
language, they wanted to continue using it.

--
(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)