basic - continued

[Tero Pesonen]

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 13:24 +0100, Odd wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
> >> I loved PASCAL. A fine structured programming langauge. And I was very
> >> impressed by MINIX. I had Tannenbaum's book on MINIX way back when.
> >> Thought it was very cool.
> >> --
> >> Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man
> > 
> > You do know that Pascal is only for learning and was never meant for
> > real programming. You were supposed to switch to Modula 2 after
> > learning the basics with Pascal but of course people never got that
> > bit of it.
> 
> It was originally meant for learning programming, but it has been used
> for serious software. People didn't exactly put much emphasis on what
> it was meant for, it seams.

Wasn't there something called Delphi on Windows that really turned
Pascal professional? 

Tero Pesonen

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