The case for simplified languages

Authors:
Philip Machanick
Affiliations:
Institute for maritime Technology, Box 181, Simon's Town, 7995, South Africa
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1985

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Abstract

A case is made for attempting to improve Pascal by reducing it in size and complexity, before additions are considered. Improvements are, in any case, best made by designing a completely new language. Some examples of possible improvements are given, based on observed deficiencies of Pascal from the point of view of teaching good programming techniques.