18 Feb
2015
18 Feb
'15
3:18 p.m.
I found Pascal a useful bridge between BASIC and "real programming
languages" (really C, I guess) when I was quite young. So as an pedagogical
language, I would say served me well. I will echo, as a kid who had a Mac
growing up, it was a lot easier to figure out the Toolbox bindings in
Pascal when I was playing with producing GUI apps! Saved having to convert
string formats as well :O
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>
wrote:
On 18/02/15 1:16 AM, emu at e-bbes.com wrote:
Zitat von Eric Smith <spacewar at
gmail.com>:
Without getting into the merits of Pascal as a programming language,
Pascal is somewhat under-rated (not to mention a litle ahead of its time,
as it turns out). Maybe this is because, like Lisp, those who snark about
it are too young to have used it :-)
Apart from anything else, it was the best-supported application and
systems programming language for Macintosh until the mid-1990s.
--Toby
Turbo Pascal was at that time the best
programming environment I'd
used, and (with apologies to C.A.R. Hoare) an improvement not only
over its predecessors but also over many of its successors. The
Finally somebody who liked Pascal ;-)
I enojoyed playing with Pascal/Modula etc.
However, paid jobs were FORTRAN & assembler
back then