> There is no significant way in which I found Pascal superior to C, but there are several places where it is a clear improvement over Ratfor. Most obvious by far is recursion: several programs are much cleaner when written recursively, notably the pattern-search, quicksort, and expression evaluation.
While the author goes about comparing Pascal to C (and Ratfor), he fails to disclose his affiliation with being the author of C.
"Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" is an article by Brian Kernighan. Kernighan didn't create C. Dennis Ritchie did. And between Ken Thompson, Kernighan, and Ritchie, Kernighan had the least to do with the creation of C.
What Kernighan did do is write the book on C. (You might argue that it's a conflict of interest, too, but it's not. It makes a lot of sense that someone would like a programming language so much that they'd decide to write a book on it.)
> There is no significant way in which I found Pascal superior to C, but there are several places where it is a clear improvement over Ratfor. Most obvious by far is recursion: several programs are much cleaner when written recursively, notably the pattern-search, quicksort, and expression evaluation.
While the author goes about comparing Pascal to C (and Ratfor), he fails to disclose his affiliation with being the author of C.