Ross
My comments were more on the 'Compiler' side ie no type checking (though
with
Blockread you picked on one of the pascal std procs that dosn't type
check)
Things i don't miss about Dataflex
1/ Lack of type and syntax checking
2/ No case statements
3/ No record structures
4/ meaningless 'compiler' errors
.....
Not all bad though - still one of the fastest (and easiest) systems to
write a simple ISAM DB app in.
Neven
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From: Ross Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, 25 June 2001 15:11
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Blockwrite strings
> Neven MacEwan wrote:
>
> > > Previously using Dataflex for DOS (for the last 13
> > > years) which is similar to Pascal.
> >
> > In what way? As a Dataflex programmer (of 15 years experiance)
> > I can cartegorically state that the Dataflex Macro Assembler is
> > only like Pascal in the way that everything is like ALGOL
>
> I "did" ALGOL in 7th form on punch cards! I seem to remember it being
> similar to Pascal which I learned the next year. I guess all languages
have
> their similarities. OK, I define Dataflex as a mixture of Pascal, Basic &
> Cobol. Maybe it is just the Repeat, While loops that are similar.
>
> BTW: Dataflex was initially written in Pascal. Up to about version 2.1
then
> completely re-written in C for 2.2, which was somewhat faster.
>
> Ross.
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