From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1696ae,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid1696ae,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Aron Felix Gurski Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/17 Message-ID: <31EC70E9.78F6@sn.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169236348 references: content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: SN Internett mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Date: 1996-07-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Darin Johnson wrote: > > > Also keep in mind that this rather lengthy diatribe was comparing c with the > > 'standard' pascal, not what it has become. Today's pascal is as > > different from what was being discussed as today's c++ is from the old c. > > True, Pascal has been mostly subsumed by Modula II and III. These are > nice languages, and you can do real-world and systems programming in > them. They're not as popular (you probably have to go commercial to > get a compiler). > -- > Darin Johnson > djohnson@ucsd.edu O- > Support your right to own gnus. The language names are Modula-2 and Modula-3. There is a shareware Modula-2 compiler available for the DOS platform. Check the FAQ in comp.lang.modula2 for information about this and other compilers. Modula-3 compilers are available by ftp; check the faq in comp.lang.modula3. -- Aron