Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Dr. What
From : tenser
Date : Mon Jan 08 2024 04:00 pm

On 07 Jan 2024 at 11:42a, Dr. What pondered and said...
 
 DW> -=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-
 DW> 
 DW>  pF> That makes sense, the PASCAL class was used mostly to teach data
 DW>  pF> structures and algorithms, then everything else was in C, assembler o
 DW>  pF> LISP. In retrospect I'd rather just jump into C or C++ instead of
 DW>  pF> spending time learning another language.
 DW> 
 DW> Pascal was intended to be a teaching language that taught you good
 DW> programming practice.  So that when you got to C/C++, and didn't have
 DW> the seatbelts that Pascal gave you, you didn't kill yourself when your
 DW> program crashed.

It was always easy to pick out the kids who'd been
exposed to COBOL and then learned C; their C code
tended to be overly verbose and not terribly idiomatic.
It'd take them a good while to come up to speed.

The ones who came from BASIC had it the worst, though.

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