Pascal Origins

[Larry Cipriani]

Shouldn't this be in net.lang.pascal ?

>Unfortunately it teaches them bad habits as well. I was freaked royally
>when my brother told me years ago that there were no provisions for
>separate compilation. Everything in one source file, and they make
>people write large scale projects in it? Pure insanity.

>No `otherwise' or `default' clause on switches makes them almost useless.

The version of pascal I used in college six years ago allowed both
seperate compilation of source file, and an 'others' clause on switches
(called case in Pascal I thought).
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