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   From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   According to c186282  :   
   >   Considering early 'structured' langs like Algol/Pascal,   
   >   USUALLY you can structure things to cope with any prob.   
   >   However sometimes, well, 'perfect' structure for that   
   >   may take WAY longer than you can afford to invest, so   
   >   some 'cheats' may have to be introduced. CompSci people   
   >   won't understand that reality.   
      
   Hi, Comp Sci PhD here.  We understand that just fine, although   
   some of us try harder than others to match theory to reality.   
   Algol60 had nice loops and nested scopes but it also had gotos.   
      
   Comp Sci like any other field can be very trendy.  When I was   
   in school it was fashionable to say bad things about COBOL even   
   though hardly anyone actually knew what COBOL was like.  I found   
   a compiler and wrote one small program to find out that yes it   
   is wordy but it also had better data structuring than a lot of   
   more fashionable languages.   
      
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