XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:57:23 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-07, Peter Flass  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Leave it to M$ (and IBM) to screw it up. Pascal was specifically   
   >> designed for fast one-pass compilation.   
   >   
   > Is that why people wrote programs bottom-up (i.e. with the main   
   > function at the bottom to avoid forward references)?   
      
   C is also like that. And C++, for all its enormous complexity in other   
   areas, preserves the tradition.   
      
   Niklaus Wirth himself abandoned the restriction in Modula-2, which was   
   specifically designed with two-pass parsing in mind: all declarations   
   were processed on the first pass, and all statements on the second   
   pass. This allowed the language to do away with explicit forward   
   declarations, as required in C/C++ and Pascal.   
      
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