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From dnalib@KCVAX.LDC.LU.SE Mon Oct 2 16:13:23 1989
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 11:00:00 EET
Reply-To: Magnus Olsson <dnalib@KCVAX.LDC.LU.SE>
Sender: Nutworks magazine & Other Nutty Stuff <NUTS@FINHUTC>
From: Magnus Olsson <dnalib@KCVAX.LDC.LU.SE>
Subject: Bored By Pascal?
To: Timo Kiravuo <kiravuo@KAMPI.HUT.FI>
Hi there!
Since this list seems to be silently dying, I'll try to revive it by
actually *posting* something. The following files were circulating on the
one of the Vaxen at the dept. of Computer Science here in Lund a few years
ago. Nothing seems to be known about the author, except that he's never
existed...
By the way, all three programs compile and run under VAX/VMS. For non-VAXers,
the MTH$RANDOM function in the second program returns a random real between
0 and 1.
Have fun!
Magnus
(DNALIB@SELDC51)
___________________________BORED-1.FOR_______________________________________
C BORED BY PASCAL?
C ================
C PASCAL IS DESIGNED SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO THINK
C WHILE PROGRAMMING. THIS IS GOOD FOR BEGINNERS BUT WILL
C BECOME A LITTLE BORING AFTER A WHILE.
C THIS LITTLE PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN TO DEMONSTRATE A
C NICE FEATURE OF FORTRAN: THE POSSIBILITY OF WRITING
C I N T E R E S T I N G CODE.
C IF THIS PROGRAM WERE WRITTEN IN PASCAL, IT WOULD BE QUITE
C BANAL AND EASILY UNDERSTANDABLE EVEN TO THE AVERAGE TLTH
C MEMBER. THAT WOULD BE NO FUN, HOWEVER.
C
C NOTE THE FOLLOWING NICETIES:
C * THE ABSENCE OF SENSIBLE COMMENTS-REAL PROGRAMMERS UNDERSTAND
C FORTRAN BETTER THAN ENGLISH!
C * THE ARITHMETIC IF-STATEMENTS (ADDING NICE FLAVOUR TO
C THE CODE)
C * THE WONDERFULLY CONCISE VARIABLE NAMES
C * THE H-FORMAT FOR ALPHANUMERIC OUTPUT ( A LIVING FOSSIL
C FROM THE HAPPY DAYS OF THE PUNCHED CARD)
C * THE NICE SPAGHETTI STRUCTURE - STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
C IS ONLY FOR AMATEURS AND OLD LADIES
C
C A SMALL REWARD IS OFFERED TO ANYBODY ABLE TO SAY WHAT
C THIS PROGRAM DOES (WITHOUT ACTUALLY RUNNING IT)
C SEND YOUR ANSWERS TO TOM A.CRONA,
C DEPARTMENT OF COMMUTER SCIENCE
C AND NUMERICAL SYNTHESIS,
C UNIVERSITY OF LUND
C
C PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PROGRAM IS NOT IN ANY WAY PATHOLOGICAL
C BUT A PERFECTLY NORMAL EXAMPLE OF WHAT PROGRAMMING WAS LIKE
C BACK IN THE GOLDEN DAYS WHEN COMPUTERS WERE COMPUTERS AND
C PROGRAMMERS WERE PROGRAMMERS...
10 WRITE (*,487)
READ (*,*) N
IF (N) 10,10,30
30 I1=2
97 I2=0
60 J=MOD(N,I1)
IF (J) 40,50,40
50 I2=I2+1
N=N/I1
GOTO 60
40 IF (I2-1) 70,80,90
70 I1=I1+2
IF (I1-4) 120,135,120
135 I1=3
120 IF (I1-N) 97,97,3
3 WRITE (*,65)
READ (*,*) I3
IF (I3) 3,130,10
130 STOP
80 WRITE (*,855) I1
GOTO 70
90 WRITE (*,930) I1,I2
GOTO 70
487 FORMAT (8H NUMBER?/)
65 FORMAT (20H CONTINUE? (1=Y,0=N)/)
855 FORMAT (I5)
930 FORMAT (I5,3H **,I5)
C BE A CREATIVE PROGRAMMER - USE FORTRAN
C (C) SFRGOD (The Society For Revival of the Good Old
C Days), Fortran section, 1984
END
____________________________BORED-2.PAS_________________________________________
{ BORED BY PASCAL? part 2
==========================
In this degenerate age of the toy computer (by some weak souls
called "personal computer" or something like that) everyone learns
programming in kindergarten or at least in high school (if there's
any difference between those school forms). For this activity, a
language called BASIC is used almost exclusively. BASIC is rather
like a small subset of FORTRAN with many of its good features
amputated but with all of its drawbacks. Anyway, you can write
all kinds of programs in BASIC, and since it (fortunately!) lacks
any trace of structured constructs it promotes creative programming
the same way FORTRAN does and you get programmers who THINK while
they're programming.
When these persons start a higher education, they are forced
to write their programs in a "language" called Pascal and are
thereby quickly converted into well-adapted quiche eaters without
a trace of originality. This paper was written to point out a method
of solving this problem.
Actually, you don't have to learn Pascal at all - it's much easier
to write your programs in BASIC and then translate them directly
into Pascal. As an example, consider the following program. It was
originally written in BASIC on a ZX80 (Yecch!) and then transformed
into syntactically perfect Pascal during the pause between two
lectures.
Most Pascal addicts turn away in disgust when seeing the words
GOTO and LABEL, but there's absolutely no reason to discriminate
these constructs - after all they're a part of the language (if that's
not too strong a word to use about Pascal). Why should any programmer
reject what is good enough for the compiler? Besides, the GOTO was
there first - structured programming is a much later (and unnecessary)
addition.
By following this recipe, the young, undestroyed programmers can
continue writing their programs in BASIC, avoid learning more
Pascal than absolutely necessary and at the same time satisfy the
Pascal buffs of the university. }
PROGRAM NIM (INPUT,OUTPUT);
{(c) Tom A. Crona 1984}
LABEL 70,90,150,230,280,370,400,460,470,520,540,800,810,820;
VAR J,S1,D,E,H,R,K : INTEGER; { WHO NEEDS FANCY LONG VARIABLE NAMES?}
A,B : ARRAY [0..3] OF INTEGER;
C : ARRAY [0..3,0..3] OF INTEGER;
FUNCTION MTH$RANDOM(VAR SEED:INTEGER):REAL; EXTERNAL;
BEGIN
WRITELN ('******* NIM *******');
WRITELN ('I HOPE YOU KNOW THE RULES OF NIM.');
WRITELN ('ANYWAY I''M NOT GOING TO RECITE THEM...');
WRITELN ('ENTER RANDOM SEED');
READ(S1);
70:FOR D:=0 TO 3 DO
A[D]:=TRUNC(MTH$RANDOM(S1)*15+1);
90:FOR D:=0 TO 3 DO
WRITELN (D+1,':',A[D]:2);
IF A[0]+A[1]+A[2]+A[3]>0 THEN GOTO 150;
WRITELN ('*I WON*');
GOTO 540;
150:WRITELN ('WHICH PILE?');
READ (D);
IF (D<1) OR (D>4) THEN GOTO 800;
WRITELN ('HOW MANY?');
READ (E);
IF (E<1) OR (E>A[D-1]) THEN GOTO 810;
A[D-1]:=A[D-1]-E;
D:=-1;
230:D:=D+1;
IF D=4 THEN GOTO 460;
FOR E:=0 TO 3 DO
B[E]:=A[E];
280:B[D]:=B[D]-1;
IF B[D]<0 THEN GOTO 230;
FOR E:=0 TO 3 DO
BEGIN
H:=B[E];
R:=16;
FOR J:=0 TO 3 DO
BEGIN
C[J,E]:=0;
R:=R DIV 2;
IF H<R THEN GOTO 370;
C[J,E]:=1;
H:=H-R;
370:END;
END;
E:=-1;
400:E:=E+1;
H:=C[E,0]+C[E,1]+C[E,2]+C[E,3];
IF H MOD 2>0 THEN GOTO 280;
IF E<3 THEN GOTO 400;
A[D]:=B[D];
GOTO 90;
460:D:=-1;
470:D:=D+1;
IF D=4 THEN GOTO 520;
IF A[D]=0 THEN GOTO 470;
A[D]:=A[D]-TRUNC(MTH$RANDOM(S1)*A[D]+1);
GOTO 90;
520:WRITELN ('YOU WON.');
540:WRITELN ('ENTER 1 IF YOU WISH TO CONTINUE, 0 OTHERWISE');
READ (K);
IF K=1 THEN GOTO 70;
GOTO 820;
800:WRITELN ('THERE IS NO SUCH PILE, STUPID!!!');
GOTO 150;
810:WRITELN ('TRYING TO CHEAT, EH?');
GOTO 150;
820:END.
______________________________BORED-3.COB__________________________________