Subj : Pascal Tutor?
To   : mark lewis
From : Karel Kral
Date : Sat May 09 2020 07:24:41

Hello mark!

08 May 20 07:18, you wrote to me:

 ml> i remember moving from (line number oriented) BASIC to Pascal and
 ml> ASM... the level of control and detail was great... many of the
 ml> keywords were the same or similar...

I would say I am similar case (starting with Basic and Asm (Mons3/Gens3) on zx spectrum) and then Pascal (scale of Borland products and then Delphi). That time C++ was too "objective" for me ;-)

But I do not program in my job.

 ml> the main thing i like about pascal is that it doesn't hold the gun,
 ml> point it at your foot, and pull the trigger for you like some other
 ml> languages do... pascal is a lot more structured than other

Understand your point. (I just thought about one factor and this is also to live on that.)

Somebody else said is just syntax/language. If guy could be good programmer or "not so good" - it does not matter which language he used.

I can (also) say going from asm/basic to pascal is easier. I can confirm that to orient in bash, python, perl was (maybe only for me) esier.

Karel

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