Comment Re: Pascal Memory (Score 2) 113
What was goofy about Pascal operators is that they were DELIBERATELY made different from other languages. And it was specifically BECAUSE it was considered to be a teaching language. Making it different because it was for students was doing them a disservice.
When Pascal came out in 1970, its AND and OR operators were much the same as those of BASIC (early 1960s). It's true that they didn't follow those of C, but given that C only came out in about 1972 that may not have been a deliberate decision from the designer of Pascal!