On 23/04/2018 20:52, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:31:15 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> I hated Pascal from that day to this. There are languages written by
>> academics, for elegance, and there are languages written by engineers,
>> to work....
>>
> ...and Pascal was written by Herr Professor Nicolas Wirth as a teaching
> language, at least partly because he hated Algol 60. Knowing that makes
> sense of a lot of its deficiencies.
>
> I learnt to read Pascal, never to write it.

Pascal's difficulty lies with the I/O that was extant at
the time of its creation, magnetic tape.

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