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.
>  
   Delphi is Pascal. There is a bunch of 'visual' windows stuff on top
but at it's heart where you write the code it's still Pascal. Pascal is
in that kind of never never land though, it's harder and takes more work
then basic, bat files, or a macro and it isn't as fast or powerfull as C
or ASM.

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