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From: Wayne <wroberts@aug.com>
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/21
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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.

Isn't there an GNU Pascal compiler?  I think it also supports some Borland changes
to the ISO standard as well.


Wayne
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