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On 07/05/2017 01:40 AM, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Jeffrey R. Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
>> On 06/29/2017 01:18 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>>> Pascal Was perfect language for learning and
>>> teaching also.
>>
>> The US Military Academy did a controlled experiment that showed that Ada (83)
>> was a better teaching language than Pascal, which they were using at the time.
>> Pascal has many well known gotchas for
> 
> What gotchas, apart from dangling else?

Semicolon statement separators rather than terminators, need for block 
statements for most compound statements, lack of exit.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I blow my nose on you."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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