"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> When I first encountered it, Pascal already had modules and sane I/O. (I 
> gather that at one time this was not the case.) It still had that silly 
> restriction where array sizes had to be known at compile-time for no 
> apparent reason...
>
> Anyway, it's irrelevant now. Pascal is a monomorphic language. It would 
> get laughed at today.

I had a friend who was working on a master's in Comp Sci in oh, about 1982. 
His professor gave him this thesis project:

Write a Pascal compiler.

In Pascal.

I can still hear in my mind the screams coming from late at night from 
friend's apartment. He was NOT a happy camper for those two years. :D

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