Re: Dynamic array allocation and STL equivalents?

[bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu (Bobby D. Bryant)]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

> bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu (Bobby D. Bryant) writes:
> 
>> Pascal pretty much _was_ "done right", given its pedagogical purpose.
> 
> Hmm...  Even back in those days, I would want to teach students about
> encapsulation and information hiding, which Pascal doesn't support very
> well.  And why should students have to deal with static-sized strings?
> And why have dangling "else", instead of if/else/end if?  And why does
> Read summarily kill the program on bad input?  Shouldn't students learn
> about proper error recovery?  Separate compilation?  Etc.
> 
> My impression of Ada in 198x was the same as the original poster --
> "Pascal done right".

OK, I concede.

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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas