RE: [xml-dev] Generic XML Tag Closer </> (GXTC)

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

Juan Gonzalez wrote:

> The inmmense popularity of C syntax
> 
> function X {.....}
> 
> or LISP one
> 
> (function X .....)
> 
> over Pascal like blocks
> 
> begin function X ..... end function ....

I think the Pascal syntax is actually:

FUNCTION convert( degC: real ): real
BEGIN
  convert := degC + 273.15;
END;

If you're seriously arguing that C has been more successful than Pascal
*because* it used curly braces rather than BEGIN/END keywords then I think
you need a course in logic. Pascal was designed so it could be typed on
European keyboards that didn't have curly braces; C used curly braces
because Americans didn't give a toss about that problem, or didn't even know
it existed.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/