> I did a LOT of development in Pascal before moving on to C/C++ and I have
to
> say that Pascal's tighter type checking made a lot of sense. It is only
with
> the newer flavors of C++ that we are approaching the protection provided
by
> Pascal.
> OTOH, I found myself regularly working around the restrictions imposed by
> Pascal, but that was a good thing ( (c) Martha Stewart ) because it made
> explicit the places I was doing something 'funny'.

Definitely me too. Imagine how the world would look now if Stroustroup would
have woked at Borland...
Wouter

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