Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Pascal does have some features] Ok.
> That's just programming langauges bigotry. PLs are not races. Distinguishing between them is good, because they really are different, and some are better than other, for different uses. Some are vastly inferior to existing, proven alternatives, and yet are popular. So that being uninformed will not save you from having them pushed on you (but everyone uses Java!). > if you're so distressed over a > few characters more to write, then go write in perl where you can hack a lot > of code using nothing but weird characters. terseness is the opposite of > readability, and readability is very good for teaching. That is completely missing the point. Important abstractions (blocks) should be very concise/cheap (very few characters) because then they are used as often as they should be, and also dont obstruct the particulars of the code. Languages in which a function declaration takes 5 lines before coding begins cause programmers to author worse factored programs (with large, hard to understand functions) than those that require 2 lines, or 1. Daniel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
