Re: Philosophical question regarding statement terminators

jthorn@galileo.thp.univie.ac.at (Jonathan Thornburg)
9 Nov 2000 16:49:36 -0500

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From: jthorn@galileo.thp.univie.ac.at (Jonathan Thornburg)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Nov 2000 16:49:36 -0500
Organization: Universitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria) / Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
References: 00-11-058
Summary: reference to Brian Kernighan paper on Pascal design
Keywords: design, question, Pascal, C
Posted-Date: 09 Nov 2000 16:49:36 EST

Steve Brazzell <steve@brazzell.com> wrote:
>Can someone point me to a good source of information on the pros/cons of the
>requirement some languages have for statement terminators, such as the
>semicolon in C, Pascal, etc.?


Our esteemed moderator requested replies directly to the original
poster, but I'd like to point to a reference which I think many readers
may find of interest for its insights into programming language design:


      Brian W. Kernighan
      "Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language"
      Originally Bell Labs Computing Science Technical Report number 100,
            published in 1981
      http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html (html)
      http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/100.ps.gz (gzipped postscript)


The author discusses semicolon as terminator-vs-separator in section 6.


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-- Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@thp.univie.ac.at>
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      Universitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria) / Institut fuer Theoretische Physik


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