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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:28:39 +0000
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, wwilson wrote:

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|One thing that made a difference is that some of the common languaages of that  |
|era were designed so that the compiler could determine the kind of statement    |
|from the first two or three letters of the statement.  Both FORTRAN and the     |
|early BASICs were this way.  [..]                                               |
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What about the inability to distinguish between
DO 10 I = 1.10
(the assignment DO10I=1.10)
and
DO 10 I = 1,10
(loop to Statement Label 10 for i in 1..10)
in FORTRAN before coming to the radix point or the comma?

Regards,
Colin Paul Gloster