'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: 'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!
>   From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
>   Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:26:41 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Again, I swore off Pascal because of the UCSD system.  If I'd had Turbo
>Pascal to learn on then things might've turned out much different.  Of
>course, Turbo Pascal required a CP/M card and a license.  It was easier
>for teacher to just copy UCSD Pascal ;)

Depends on the boxen used and it's storage limits.  I had a NS* with 
three 89k drives and that was adaquate to avoid swapping media.  In 
the end it was ok.  Though it beat the Univac1180, greatly.  The reason
was I was developing code infront of a H19 terminal with an anadex 80cps
printer rather than submitting card decks.  My intro to Pascal in '79
was a Data Structures course with asm and BASIC as a "what I had before".

>Pascal is not a bad language to develop in.  But I much prefer the
>succinctness of C.

Pascal is OK.  C on the other hand I found had some syntax odditites 
that still trips me.  I find C is like reading weather sequence reports
for the first time. I'll repeat that in that form. I fnd C rd wx sq rpts
trbl. It's often cryptic to the extreme and nearly as readable as 
uncommented ASM.  The OO versions are plainly pain.


Allison