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From: softbase@mercury.interpath.com (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/19
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Patrick Horgan (patrick@broadvision.com) wrote:

: Of course I think you should learn at least seven or eight high level languages
: just for fun 

Once you know C, Pascal and other structured languages
aren't much of a challenge. Perl is very similar. You can
learn 5-6 languages just from C and a little study. Throw
in C++ and couple of others and you'll be all set.

: and five or six assemblers for the same reason.

I'd rather just learn C and port it. Asm isn't as important
anymore now that there's so many different platforms.

Scott