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- From: gjohnson@dream.season.com (Reality is a point of view)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java closer to Modula-3 than to C++
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 01:01:08 GMT
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- +---- pete@borland.com wrote:
- | Now, now, the original posting raises a valid point. Pascal puts the burden on
- | the programmer to do a lot of the work that the compiler does in other
- | languages. That makes it easy to compile, which is why Pascal compilers can
- | be very fast, but it makes it hard to write. I once heard of a team of two
- | programmers working on a project in Pascal. One of them wrote the code, and
- | the other wrote the semicolons.
- +----
-
- I thought the one pass, limited look ahead was what made the
- front end so fast, and Turbo Pascal using cat a b > c on the
- back end. Or c := a + b, depending.
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- Gary Johnson "I'd a done sumpin too, but I ain't no Peckerton Ditinctive."
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