> It was certainly a fair tradeoff—just think about how fast you type yourself—but the price for this temporal frugality was a whole new class of hard-to-spot b

> It was certainly a fair tradeoff—just think about how fast you type yourself—but the price for this temporal frugality was a whole new class of hard-to-spot bugs in C code. > Niklaus Wirth tried to undo some of the damage in Pascal, and the bickering over begin and end would no } take. "1970 - Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal, a procedural language. Critics immediately denounce Pascal because it uses "x := x + y" syntax instead of the more familiar C-like "x = x + y". This criticism happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented." http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...