[fpc-devel] Pascal Standard, and what we can do.

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> > Typing was never the limiting factor in programming,
> 
> Surely you're joking.

No. Note that I mean notations that are mostly shorthand, not removal
of primal language constructs.

> Do you really claim that there has ever been any 
> excuse for this sort of terseness, except for minimising keyboard work?

 
> A0: R := INSYMBOL;
> A1: IF F[S[I]] > G[R] THEN GO TO A2;
>   IF R = MARK THEN GO TO A9;
>   I := J := I+1; S[I] := R; MOVE(NAME, V[I]); GO TO A0;
> A2: IF F[S[J-1]] = G[S[J]] THEN BEGIN J := J-1; GO TO A2 END;
>   M := MTB[S[J]];
> A3: IF PRTB[M] = 0 THEN BEGIN ERROR(5); GO TO EXIT END;
>   N := J;
> 
> And that's Wirth's code, by the way.

I'm not sure how this illustrates anything relating to shorthand language
constructs.