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To: Kashish King who wrote (9675)	3/31/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

>>>Hell, Pascal and Eiffel are probably illegal in Quebec!!! <<< To Laugh. BEGIN I agree begin/end is needlessly verbose. Why so many language designers have decided that humans who invented perfectly good punctuation for this purpose "({[]})" lo those many years ago would be happier if it was in words - well why not end each sentence with "PERIOD" QUESTION MARK END In fact, I did what your freind did in reverse when programming in Pascal - defined {} as begin end, and search-replaced them only at the end of the project, when other folks had to read the code. Object Pascal objects and packaging were a lot like Java, though. Very nice in some ways. However, if you had ever had to write in COBOL you might forgive the Pascal folks. After all, Pascal was a pretty early effort, just after C I think. Turbo Pascal got sub-1 minute compile times on 2 megahertz cpm 8080 boxes, making possible the first effective IDE. As I'm sure you know. It was, after all, the product that made Borland. Chaz