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On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Roland Tarver wrote: > >> Is pascal still used to teach programming. I believe it was developed >> as a teaching language? We used it in college (13 years ago - heck im >> old! lol lol) > > Hmph. Young whipper snapper ... hehe :-p > I had a summer job programming a computer aided learning suite in UCSD > Pascal for the Royal Infirmiray in Edinburgh - that was 28 years ago... > (Before you were born? ;-) > > Pascal suffered from lack of proper IO in the reference implementations, > which was OK when you were reading from a deck of punched cards, but not > from the keyboard. It was 'fixed up' in latter years... IIRC that schools in > Lothian went down the Modula 2 route for a while as it was easier to do > screen & keyboard IO in, and generally less clunky than Pascal. I jumped to > C as soon as I found out about it and never really looked at Pascal again... Cool. From what I remember it was pretty easy to learn all the basics in (I did). I think I even had to do a project using it. hmmm - I'm not a programmer, but suddenly I feel the need... lol Roly :-) > Gordon > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq