'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[woodelf]

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>On Thu, 12 May 2005, John Foust wrote:
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>>At 10:26 AM 5/12/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
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>>>Let's face it: the UCSD Pascal system just sucks.
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>>Of course Pascal has its flaws, and they became more obvious as
>>people tried to use this designed-for-education language as a
>>application production language.  In its best years, it was
>>a very useful packaging of an integrated editor, file system
>>and interactive compilation and almost-debugging.
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>My comment was directed specifically at the UCSD Pascal system, and
>furthermore directly at the Apple version.  Pascal as a language is not
>bad, and is probably the best language for doing what it was invented for,
>which is teaching high level programming.  And of course, tons of useful
>production software has been developed in Pascal.
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Pascal  was punch card user input , C at least used TTY's  :)