Subj : This Echo?
To   : Scott Adams
From : Andy Ball
Date : Wed Aug 21 2002 02:59 pm

Hello,

  ml> yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(

  SA> Yeah I remember the day when we had tons of newbies in the echo.

I might qualify.  I did a little Pascal at college, skipped Modula-2 but look 
at Oberon every now and again.  From what I've seen, I like Wirth's work: 
Pascal seems quite readable and I like 'common-sense' touches like defining 
procedures before they're called by the main program, enabling a single-pass 
compiler.  I would like to use Pascal to write some open-source software, but 
I've found that trying to make open-source Pascal compilers work tends to be 
like banging my head against a wall: painful and unproductive.

- Andy.

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