Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

[Sean Caron]

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,
>>> 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.
>>
>
> 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
>
>
>> However, paid jobs were FORTRAN & assembler back then
>>
>>
>