Multilevel standards

[Keith Bostic]

>> reply to the recent spate of "Pascal
>> is a wonderful system language" articles

Come on -- let's not start a PASCAL vs. C debate, okay?  Read Kernighan,
Bell Labs Computing Science Technical Report #100.  Pascal in its standard
form is simply not useable for anything except cute little application
programs.  I'm not cutting it down -- I'd rather teach Pascal to freshman
than anything else I can think of.  But it doesn't cut it in the real
world.  If you want to extend it, fine.  But, then, it's not really
Pascal, now, is it?  The same argument applies to all the extended Basics
out there.  You can extend a language to slice, dice and do julienne fries,
but it's only good taste to refrain from arguing that the original version
did/does all those things.

		Keith Bostic
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