Board:   [DeveloperNet] Pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler of ch
From:    Deavmi
Date:    Fri Jun 09, 2017 22:37

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On 08/06/2017 04:32, Vk3jed wrote:
> -=> Deavmi wrote to Vk3jed <=-
>   >
>   De> Very fun. I love the syntax. Oldlanguages 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 aroundC.  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 specialcases, 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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Cooleo. Well atleast it is a useful language, Pascal that is and you can
get stuff done in it. Infact a language, Nim, had its compiler written
in Pascal and it is a new language so yeah. One up man!
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