Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Dr. What
Date : Sun Jan 07 2024 11:42:30

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-

 pF> That makes sense, the PASCAL class was used mostly to teach data
 pF> structures and algorithms, then everything else was in C, assembler or
 pF> LISP. In retrospect I'd rather just jump into C or C++ instead of
 pF> spending time learning another language.

Pascal was intended to be a teaching language that taught you good programming
practice.  So that when you got to C/C++, and didn't have the seatbelts that
Pascal gave you, you didn't kill yourself when your program crashed.


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