Subj : Anyone home??
To   : Brian Jennings
From : Thomas W. Mueller
Date : Tue May 08 2001 03:51 pm

Hello Brian.

07 May 01 17:24, you wrote to me:

 PK>> Greetings Earthlings!! Curious, looks as if noone is here!!
 TWM>> Nobody uses Pascal anymore. It is an antiquated programming
 TWM>> language developed for teaching purposes only. Real programmers
 TWM>> use C++ or Java.
 BJ> I've looked at C++ and went back to Pascal.
So did I. But "Pascal" means Delphi for me. I wouldn't want to go back to the 
days before object oriented programming.

 TWM>> So why should anybody write here?
 BJ> Maybe because some people still prefer to use Pascal.
Unfortunately they are a minority nowadays.

 BJ> I've got one friend that won't use anything but Quick Basic. My
 BJ> feeling is that if the language you are using does what you want it
 BJ> to, and you are happy with it, then why change.
Amen.

 TWM>> Actually, real programmers use Delphi. ;-)
 BJ> Guess I will never be a real programmer then. :-)
Do you know what you are missing out?

Thomas

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