On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:23:49PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:14:34PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > Pascal is a crappy language to start learning programmin. It is a "bondage and > > > discipline" language taken to the extreme. Poor Blaise is still spinning :( > > > > > > I have learned Pascal in college, two years after I learned C and boy was it > > > painfull... > > > > I bet you learned 'pure' pascal, didn't you? Borland pascals are > > heavily extended and, IMO, have moved beyond the B&D tendencies of > > the language's pure form to become Real Languages. (Yes, they even > > have pointers...) > > You lost :) It was Turbo Pascal 5.5... Turbo Pascal was the first language I taught myself (from reading and testing) when I got my first x86 machine 12 years ago.. Pretty funny, can't remember a /thing/ about it anymore. -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>