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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:08:43 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language -
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> >Why create an entirely new language, new syntax, new linkage, etc, instead
> >of fixing C's shortcomings?
> 
> I never understood the "crash and burn" logic either.
> 
> Maybe you should come up with a new C standard ;)

I sorta did, though it could use some polish:

http://www.little-lang.org/

example that I use to do my photo layout:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/photos.l

which does stuff like:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/hockey-portraits/
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