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Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
ABSTRACT
The programming language Pascal has become the dominant language of
instruction in computer science education. It has also strongly influenced languages developed subsequently, in particular Ada.
Pascal was originally intended primarily as a teaching language, but it has
been more and more often recommended as a language for serious programming
as well, for example, for system programming tasks and even operating systems.
Pascal, at least in its standard form, is just plain not suitable for serious programming. This paper discusses my personal discovery of some of the reasons
why.
April 2, 1981