JM>   Z := power(x,y)  works but definitely is uglier than Z = X**Y in
 JM> how it works.
 JM> Justin Marquez
 JM> Artichoke BBS, Houston, TX
 SB> I think I would be a bit more concerned with how efficient it was and
 SB> well it worked rather than making it look like what you are used to.
 SB> Just my opinion.
    How it works is my concern.  How it "looks" is important, too, because 
maintaining code which is difficult to decipher makes the job harder later 
on.  After a while, you have so many nested parentheses that the statements 
begin to look as if they were written in LISP. (Which probably stands for 
"Lost In Stupid Parentheses").
    I have always ASSUMED (possibly dangerous to do so...) that a 
user-written routine built from high-level compiled language statements was 
likely to be less efficient than the code used in writing the built-in 
operators of the language. If DELPHI was indeed written in DELPHI, maybe that 
isn't true.  (However, DELPHI seems reasonably fast.)
   If I am wrong, then assembly language programmers are henceforth out of 
work!
Justin Marquez
Artichoke BBS, Houston, TX
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