From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!tr1.eu1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 10:46:07 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 11:46:08 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <5afvagd0g4uajs1ji35v3lorkgb2kd56qu@4ax.com> References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-t8YDUpKxwZZ5NbI1WIKqvGkHfyGWuzzAs1lrCpKOOR55c7kF0UI95iRC/pEYphxt3C/yDZEbXVDN5WY!b3WQHO/JQweblTxHAJQk4oAlul3akyBI6HIn4RKxC+RvPrpLYKd3+9e41cYLlMKJQnEduZjs X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2082 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62028 List-Id: On Wed, 26 May 2021 23:53:18 -0700 (PDT), Robin Vowels declaimed the following: > >Algol 60 did not have a defined I/O. Just curious -- do you mean the I/O was all by linked in function/subroutines rather than being keywords in the language? If so, that also applies to the C-family, and many of the more modern languages. I think FORTRAN, COBOL, and REXX are the only languages I know where the I/O is a built-in/keyword. >I/O in Pascal was flawed. Well... It probably worked quite well in the original OS (a batch environment I believe, with no concept of interactive terminals) -- which preread one "record" for each (externally defined) file connection. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/