From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FREEMAIL_REPLY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,15edb893ef79e231 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,15edb893ef79e231 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,15edb893ef79e231 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,23202754c9ce78dd X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-13 19:10:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: gmc444@yahoo.com (Greg C) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: True faiths ( was Re: The true faith ) Date: 13 Feb 2002 19:10:43 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <62340e2a.0202131910.4c33731c@posting.google.com> References: <4idg3u40ermnp682n6igc5gudp7hajkea9@4ax.com> <3219936759616091@naggum.net> <3c4a149d.9839580@news.bigpond.com> <43d7620c.0202130831.306d52d5@posting.google.com> <3b0c4a5.0202131528.1c870d00@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.102.249.19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1013656243 31393 127.0.0.1 (14 Feb 2002 03:10:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Feb 2002 03:10:43 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:26485 comp.lang.ada:19992 comp.lang.eiffel:5680 comp.lang.smalltalk:19598 Date: 2002-02-14T03:10:43+00:00 List-Id: peter_gummer@hotmail.com (Peter Gummer) wrote in message news:<3b0c4a5.0202131528.1c870d00@posting.google.com>... > 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! The first Pascal compilers were in fact written in Pascal and that code contained "goto"s. Greg