Bisma Jayadi wrote: > Linus concluded, "the C language has scoping rules for a reason. *If I > wanted a language that didn't allow me to do anything wrong, I'd be > using Pascal.* As it is, it turns out that things that 'look' wrong on a > local level are often not wrong after all."
Well, Linus is not too fond of "standard Pascal" (but neither am I ;-) ), read the following about goto and labels: (http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131) <quote> On 12 Jan 2003, Robert Love wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 15:22, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > No, you've been brainwashed by CS people who thought that Niklaus > > Wirth actually knew what he was talking about. He didn't. He > > doesn't have a frigging clue. > > I thought Edsger Dijkstra coined the "gotos are evil" bit in his > structured programming push? Yeah, he did, but he's dead, and we shouldn't talk ill of the dead. So these days I can only rant about Niklaus Wirth, who took the "structured programming" thing and enforced it in his languages (Pascal and Modula-2), and thus forced his evil on untold generations of poor CS students who had to learn langauges that weren't actually useful for real work. (Yeah, yeah, most _practical_ versions of Pascal ended up having all the stuff necessary to break structure, but as you may be able to tell, I was one of the unwashed masses who had to write in "standard Pascal" in my youth. I'm scarred for life). </quote> Micha _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
