Subj : Re: This Echo?
To   : Andy Ball
From : Scott Adams
Date : Fri Aug 30 2002 08:40 pm

 -=> Quoting Andy Ball to Scott Adams <=-


 
 ml> yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(
 
 SA> Yeah I remember the day when we had tons of newbies in the echo.

 AB> I might qualify.  I did a little Pascal at college, skipped Modula-2
 AB> but look at Oberon every now and again.  From what I've seen, I like
 AB> Wirth's work: Pascal seems quite readable and I like 'common-sense'
 AB> touches like defining procedures before they're called by the main
 AB> program, enabling a single-pass compiler.  I would like to use Pascal
 AB> to write some open-source software, but I've found that trying to make
 AB> open-source Pascal compilers work tends to be like banging my head
 AB> against a wall: painful and unproductive. 

        Yeah.  I've done pascal since the early '80s though technically
        my first language was basic as it was for everyone then.  Since
        then I've tried to learn more and up to about 26 langauges
        through college and work.  But I still come back to pascal
        for home coding since its the easiest and less stressful than
        say C which I may do at work all day.  As to open sourcing
        yes, its alot of material to deal with and can get bogged
        down in things.





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