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From: peter_gummer@hotmail.com (Peter Gummer)
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Subject: Re: True faiths ( was Re: The true faith )
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tshawke@qwest.com (Tom Hawker) wrote in message news:<43d7620c.0202130831.306d52d5@posting.google.com>...
> If I remember correctly, Pascal was originally designed based on a
> provability calculus.  That is, Pascal programs were supposed to be
> provably correct (don't ask me to define that), which is why there
> were so many things "missing", such as C-equivalents "break" and
> "goto".

Wirth's original Pascal *did* have goto. In fact, it could jump right
out of the current procedure up the call stack, so it was actually a
bit like C's longjmp() function!