Subj : program echo;
To   : Tom De Puysseleyr
From : Niels Joncheere
Date : Mon Oct 02 2017 23:03:52

Hallo Tom,

Op 30 Sep 17 om 10:20 schreef jij aan Joaquim Homrighausen:

 TP> 29 Sep 17 23:58, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 JH>> Traditional Pascal *is* quite stale, but was used a lot to teach
 JH>> people programming ...

 TP> I learned myself how to program in Basic on an Apple //e, and later in
 TP> learned pascal. I used that a lot in the good old Fidonet days, it was
 TP> great fun! But then I learned VB6 at school and forgot everything
 TP> about Pascal... I still use VB.Net that now on a daily basis at work..

Back when I was in secondary school in the 90s, Pascal was taught to some 
students of our school, though not to my own class. I taught myself BASIC, and 
later VB.NET. I recently looked at the ErrFlags Pascal code for reasons similar 
to Wilfred's, and was actually quite positively surprised by the language 
itself: it seems to promote a 'better' style of programming than VB. In most 
current applications of VB.NET, I think I would prefer to use C# for the same 
purpose.

Best regards,
Niels

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