Subj : RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : tenser
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Sat Jan 13 2024 16:02:46

 t> On 07 Jan 2024 at 11:42a, Dr. What pondered and said...
 t>  
 DW>> -=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-
 DW>> 
 DW>>  pF> That makes sense, the PASCAL class was used mostly to teach data
 DW>>  pF> structures and algorithms, then everything else was in C, assembler 
 t> o
 DW>>  pF> LISP. In retrospect I'd rather just jump into C or C++ instead of
 DW>>  pF> spending time learning another language.
 DW>> 
 DW>> Pascal was intended to be a teaching language that taught you good
 DW>> programming practice.  So that when you got to C/C++, and didn't have
 DW>> the seatbelts that Pascal gave you, you didn't kill yourself when your
 DW>> program crashed.

 t> It was always easy to pick out the kids who'd been
 t> exposed to COBOL and then learned C; their C code
 t> tended to be overly verbose and not terribly idiomatic.
 t> It'd take them a good while to come up to speed.

 t> The ones who came from BASIC had it the worst, though.

The COBOL kids had shorter fingers, also known as COBOL fingers...  ?   :)




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