Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Bob Worm
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jan 04 2024 20:12:50

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: Bob Worm to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 04 2024 11:06 pm

 >> Anyone who studied CS in the 90s on probably started off with Pascal - not
 >> sure about nowadays.

 BW> Certainly accurate in my case, at the very end of the 90s. I loved Pascal
 BW> back then and really couldn't see why people preferred C. I think I
 BW> switched to C when I started using Linux - GCC was a lot easier to lay my
 BW> hands on than... whatever the good Pascal compiler was!

I took a few CS programming classes in college in 1999-2000, and they were teaching C++.  I ended up going into a software engineering program.  I never had any Pascal classes in college.

Nightfox
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