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More comments on the programming language Pascal

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A. N. Habermann recently published some “Critical comments on the programming language Pascal”. His reproaches are principally that numerous constructs are ill-defined, that there is “confusion” amongst ranges, types and structures, and that the goto statement should have been abolished. The present reply successively deals with points that are clearly refutable, those which are debatable and those which constitute valid criticism. Its principal aim is to encourage the reader to form his own opinion.

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  1. Laboratoire d'Informatique, Université de Nice, Parc Valrose, 06034, Nice, France

    O. Lecarme

  2. Groupe de Recherches sur lesSystèmes et Langages de Programmation Département d'Informatique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, 101, Montréal, Canada

    P. Desjardins

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Lecarme, O., Desjardins, P. More comments on the programming language Pascal. Acta Informatica 4, 231–243 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288728

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