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#C to Pascal

    02-Mar-90 22:15:44
Sb: #24293-#C to Pascal
Fm: Tom Cattrall 72767,622
To: Jack Crenshaw 72325,1327
Jack– You shoulda asked me about C to Pascal conversions. I could have told you it was a pain. 🙂 (the sharp reader will guess how _I_ found out). Beats me why C programmers go all out to use such complicated incomprehensible structures and features. It's darned hard to get going in the first place and pure torture to maintain in the future. Reminds me of how assembly code used to be written, including at one time by me. But it didn't take me long to learn that such habits caused real grief. An example of that illustrates how hard such things are to comprehend comes from a song from around 35 years ago. I don't remember the name or the singer but the refrain was: I was looking back to see, if you were looking back to see, if I was looking back to see, if you were looking back at me. In 20 years of assembly coding, I've found that like those lyrics indirect addressing remains just as difficult to comprehend. Tom