On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:23:49PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:14:34PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> > Pascal is a crappy language to start learning programmin. It is a "bondage and
> > discipline" language taken to the extreme. Poor Blaise is still spinning :(
> > 
> > I have learned Pascal in college, two years after I learned C and boy was it
> > painfull...
> 
> I bet you learned 'pure' pascal, didn't you?  Borland pascals are
> heavily extended and, IMO, have moved beyond the B&D tendencies of
> the language's pure form to become Real Languages.  (Yes, they even
> have pointers...)

You lost :) It was Turbo Pascal 5.5...

And don't get me started on pointer in Pascal or I/O in Pascal...

florin

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