Board:   [DeveloperNet] Pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler of ch
From:    Vk3jed
Date:    Thu Jun 08, 2017 13:32

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-=> Deavmi wrote to Vk3jed <=-
 >
 De> Very fun. I love the syntax. Old languages are fun. I was never around
 De> in those times (born in 1999) but hell do I love them. My grand mother
 De> was a systems analyst and did Fortran, COBOL, Pascal and probably more
 De> back in those days.

I never got my head around C.  One reason was a really bad lecturer at uni, who
also put me off *NIX, until I had a project that required Linux, then I was
hooked. :-)  But for C, the damage was done, and I haven't had the time to
learn a totally new language.  For me, the hardest part is not the structure of
a program, but the specifics.  My natural mode of thought is non verbal (and
probably worth a PhD study :D ), my memory is such that I remember broader
concepts rather than syntactic speciicifics, except for special cases, and my
recall is pretty ordinary, meaning for anything I don't regularly use, I need a
reference guide with me all the time that I can look up in reasonable time.

Pascal fares much better, much of it having been in long term memory at some
stage.  Refreshing/relearning is much quicker than something totally new,
because my recognition, which is well above average, can assist greatly.


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