Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Bob Worm
From : esc
Date : Thu Jan 04 2024 08:50 pm

 BW> Certainly accurate in my case, at the very end of the 90s. I loved
 BW> Pascal back then and really couldn't see why people preferred C. I think
 BW> I switched to C when I started using Linux - GCC was a lot easier to lay
 BW> my hands on than... whatever the good Pascal compiler was!

Conversely I missed the Pascal bus :P I dabbled when I was 13 years old or so but quickly moved on to C when I started using linux as a daily driver.

Oddly enough BBSing was the impetus for my curiosity in coding :P

I'd still like to go learn Pascal simply because of how prominent it was in all things BBSing, and the amount of Pascal sources related to BBSes are out there floating around. I wonder how long it'd take.

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