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: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/24 Message-ID: <4t5eol$hp3@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169941195 references: followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Broward newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Darin Johnson (djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu) 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. -- ************begin r.s. response******************** (re. modula2 in posting cited above) an amazing shareware ^^^^^^^^^ modula2 compiler for (ms pc dr)dos is widely available, named fmodula2 ^^^^^^^^ . ************end r.s. response********************** Ralph Silverman z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us