basic - continued

[Joep L. Blom]

Tero Pesonen wrote:
> 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
> 
I can tell a lot about the erratic course steered by Borland and the 
cogs effectively thrown by certain other companies (not only MS) but I 
think that is too much OT. Maybe worth a new thread to inform youngsters 
about the interesting history of program development?
Joep