Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : hollowone
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Jan 08 2024 09:35 am

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: hollowone to Nightfox on Mon Jan 08 2024 03:35 am

 Ni>> I took a few CS programming classes in college in 1999-2000, and they
 Ni>> were teaching C++.  I ended up going into a software engineering program.
 Ni>> I never had any Pascal classes in college.

 ho> I think that's the time where all schools successfuly adopted Windows and
 ho> dropped MSDOS in its curriculum. Pascal (and Borland's compilers and tools
 ho> specifically) was dominant in MS-DOS times.

I started college in early 1999, and any computer instruction was typically using Windows.  The college I started at had a computer lab that was mostly Windows PCs, and a section of Mac desktops.

One thing that I've found odd is that in some programming forums on Facebook & such, there have been some students asking questions and saying their instructor was having them use Borland Turbo C++ for DOS - And this was well into the 2010s.

Nightfox
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