From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T00:35:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"

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From: "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net>
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To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"


> > I think a big reason 'with' has not been accepted is that
> > Matz remains unconvinced. It's rather a Pascalism, and I
> > recall he said he never liked Pascal.
>
> Ooops...  :-)
>
> (Does anybody listen? No? Ok: I admit that I like Pascal as a language for
> learning.  It has some shortcomings especially with regard to IO but it
> provides a verbose syntax that makes programs easy to read and understand.
> But don't tell matz...)  :-)

:) I actually liked Pascal very much also, especially
when I learned it after coming from BASIC and FORTRAN.
It was like a friendlier kind of ALGOL.

It had significant problems, but the Borland variant
fixed most of these (while introducing one or two more).
And nowadays Object Pascal is not perfect, but I say it
is as good as C++ or better.

Hal

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