Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Joacim Melin
From : tenser
Date : Tue Jan 16 2024 06:10 am

On 13 Jan 2024 at 04:02p, Joacim Melin pondered and said...
 
 JM>  t> On 07 Jan 2024 at 11:42a, Dr. What pondered and said...
 JM>  t>  
 JM>  DW>> -=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-
 JM>  DW>> 
 JM>  DW>>  pF> That makes sense, the PASCAL class was used mostly to teach dat
 JM>  DW>>  pF> structures and algorithms, then everything else was in C, assem
 JM>  t> o
 JM>  DW>>  pF> LISP. In retrospect I'd rather just jump into C or C++ instead 
 JM>  DW>>  pF> spending time learning another language.
 JM>  DW>> 
 JM>  DW>> Pascal was intended to be a teaching language that taught you good
 JM>  DW>> programming practice.  So that when you got to C/C++, and didn't hav
 JM>  DW>> the seatbelts that Pascal gave you, you didn't kill yourself when yo
 JM>  DW>> program crashed.
 JM> 
 JM>  t> It was always easy to pick out the kids who'd been
 JM>  t> exposed to COBOL and then learned C; their C code
 JM>  t> tended to be overly verbose and not terribly idiomatic.
 JM>  t> It'd take them a good while to come up to speed.
 JM> 
 JM>  t> The ones who came from BASIC had it the worst, though.
 JM> 
 JM> The COBOL kids had shorter fingers, also known as COBOL fingers...  ?  
 JM> :)

Heh; that was actually a typo: I meant to say, "who had
been exposed to Pascal and then learned C".  My bad!

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