Re: New Book: The School of Niklaus Wirth

On 5 Nov 2000 20:53:01 -0500, "Orlando Llanes" <ollanes@pobox.com>
wrote:


<snip>
> There are two really annoying features in C, C++, and Pascal; 1)
>semi-colons are required, 2) "{" and "}" or "begin" and "end" can make
>a program unreadable by nesting in as little as 3 levels. BASIC has
>the right idea in requiring that you specify what you're ending.
<snip>


Re the semi-colons: While BASIC does not use them, BASIC does still
require an end of statement indicator, either the colon that denotes
multiple statements on a single line, of the end of a line.
[This is REALLY the end of this topic. Somewhere there must be a semicolon
corollary to Godwin's Law. -John]

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