Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To   : Hemo
From : Deavmi
Date : Sat Apr 01 2017 04:03 pm

  Re: Re: Opinion on Pascal
  By: Hemo to Deavmi on Sat Apr 01 2017 01:07 pm

 > -=> Deavmi wrote to Hemo <=-
 > 
 >  De> On 2017-04-01 05:48 AM, Hemo wrote:
 >  > -=> Deavmi wrote to Hemo <=-
 >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >  De> Python is technically seen as a scripting language too but atleast i
t's
 >  >  De> better. Idk though. i love Python (you can use it as a command-line,
 >  >  De> just differently).
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > Perl falls to mind as well. now there's one that is confusing.  About 15
 >  > different ways and back to do just about anything, ranging from complete
 >  > gibberish to human readable.  And it all works.
 >  >
 >  > ... I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.
 >  > --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49
 >  >  � Synchronet � - Running madly into the wind and scream
ing
 > -
 >  De>  bbs.ujoint.org
 >  >
 >  De> Perl to me is not a nice language. Ugly as hell.
 > 
 > Lol - yes, I can see that, though it is a language I do a lot of work in and
 I
 > try very hard to write in such a way that others can understand, and I comme
nt
 > things heavily.   I use Perl for text file manipulations mostly, I think it
 > excels in this area.  I have started doing some of my daily taks in bash
 > scripts when I can, because others in our support team understand bash more
 > than Perl.
 > 
 > I dabbled in Pascal back in the 1990's, even wrote a few mods for Synchronet
 > back then that never really took off, but you can still find at least one of
 > them in BBS archives.  It was my first attempt, and much like the work I do
 > today, it was manipulating a text file to change data.  I didn't continue us
ing
 > Pascal, and forgot most things.
 > 
 > In 1981 I wrote a huge multiple choice quiz system in Integer Basic on the
 > Apple ][ series.  It was basically a flat file database with a front end and
 an
 > editor.  I aced that class, and it was a fun project.  I recall the teacher
 > used the program for a few quizes in the following years.  (I gave permissio
n)
 > 
 > I started a class on Python and dropped it because I couldn't get over some
 > things.  I can't recall what those things were, I should go take another loo
k
 > at it.
 > 
 > cheers,
 >   Hemo

Thanks for the info. Maybe take a look at Python and you can figure those
things out. Maybe it's the heavy use of OOP?

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