Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Spectre
From : Blue White
Date : Sat Jan 06 2024 08:56:13

 >  BW> We were still required to take BASIC, with Pascal offered as an
 > elective,
 >  BW> but I suspect that the school I went to was a little behind the
 > times.
 > 
 > Mine was much the same.  Basic, touching on other stuff.. pascal was
 > probably
 > the most likely, the rest just rating mentions.  I suspect it reflects
 > more
 > on the age of the people writing the texts at the time.  This is mid
 > to late 80s...

I was late 80s/early 90s, so maybe.  I took PASCAL as an elective and
spent most of the class trying to figure out if anything I was learning
could be applied to my BBS.  :D



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