A big sorrow for all of us.
(Hmm, it's still a good language for the beginner... LOTS and LOTS of demos and
examples on the net. perfect for picking apart and messing with :-)

Steve wrote:
> 
> Alain CULOS wrote:
> 
> > Route 2 :
> > Next step I would strongly advise Pascal as it is a pretty simple conventional
> > programming language. If you look closely at the way it enforces you to define
> > your programs you will understand pretty clearly and pretty quickly what is
> > happening in the machine and in the compiler. Pascal is one of the best
> > (self)teaching languages.
> > Borland (not free) has developped turbo pascal with object oriented features and
> > that is much easier to use than C++. Again very good for teaching purposes not
> > always as powerful as C/C++, always cleaner than C/C++.
> >
> 
> You should be aware that of the 3 major programming environments, one dropped
> Pascal a while back and the second announced yesterday that it is dropping Pascal.
> Pascal is a fine language, but it appears that it's future is now frozen. Pascal is
> supported by a couple of the lesser environments but it may be a bad way to go if
> you are looking for a professional career in programming.
> 
> I feel badly for the many millions of lines of legacy code written in Pascal.
> 
> steve

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