'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:13:06 -0600
woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:

> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 12 May 2005, John Foust wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>At 10:26 AM 5/12/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Let's face it: the UCSD Pascal system just sucks.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>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.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> Pascal  was punch card user input , C at least used TTY's  :)
> 
> 

When I took the 'intro to computer programming' course in college** ,
the punched-card language was FORTRAN.  The 'interactive' programming
language was FOCAL at a teletype.


(** Hamline University,  St. Paul, MN, 1978)