Subj : Re: C++ joke post --troll like style- EXPLAINED! To : comp.programming From : Mabden Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 12:22 pm wrote in message news:1128325882.894127.215160@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > > Mabden wrote: > > "puzzlecracker" wrote in message > > news:1128216824.290723.215570@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > > > C'mon people- embrace the reality. Oberon is the next language to > > > become obsolete with the record of minimum time used professionally. > > > > > > There's a language called Oberon? > > Even a usenet group dedicated to it - comp.lang.oberon > > but the traffic is as low as you might expect for a language that > didn't exactly 'make it' in the mainstream. It followed Pascal & > Module [sic] from Niklaus Wirth. Ahhh... Wirth-less as a language, but great for teaching how a language might work. I loved Pascal. Then I found C. I learned how one pointer worked in Pascal. Then I found out you could pointers to EVERYTHING (even functions!). Wirth did his job well, in designing languages that teach programming concepts better than BASIC. He should be honored in some Computer Programming Hall of Fame. Just don't use them for actual work... .