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From: vic@brutus.tlug.org (Vic Metcalfe)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/19
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Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00
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Jason Alan Turnage (turnage@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
: Patrick Horgan (patrick@broadvision.com) wrote:

: : If C++ is not a choice for you learn C.  Pascal won't get you a job.
:    Unless you want to be a high school computer teacher (snicker, snicker)

My company does development in Delphi, which is a mutant version of Pascal.
We recently tried to hire additional Delphi programmers, but found that
none who were at all qualified could be found.  We would have been happy
to find any programmer that knew Pascal as well as most good programmers 
know C.

I didn't see in your orignal post what platform you are learning on, but
if it is MS-Windows, and you have access to Delphi, there are plenty of
jobs out there.  On the other hand, if you are using unix, and have a
standard or extended pascal compiler, I wouldn't waste my time with it,
but would learn other more common languages.

Good luck,
  Vic.