Hallo Tom,   
      
   Op 30 Sep 17 om 10:20 schreef jij aan Joaquim Homrighausen:   
      
    TP> 29 Sep 17 23:58, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
      
    JH>> Traditional Pascal *is* quite stale, but was used a lot to teach   
    JH>> people programming ...   
      
    TP> I learned myself how to program in Basic on an Apple //e, and later in   
    TP> learned pascal. I used that a lot in the good old Fidonet days, it was   
    TP> great fun! But then I learned VB6 at school and forgot everything   
    TP> about Pascal... I still use VB.Net that now on a daily basis at work..   
      
   Back when I was in secondary school in the 90s, Pascal was taught to some   
   students of our school, though not to my own class. I taught myself BASIC, and   
   later VB.NET. I recently looked at the ErrFlags Pascal code for reasons similar   
    to Wilfred's, and was actually quite positively surprised by the language   
   itself: it seems to promote a 'better' style of programming than VB. In most   
   current applications of VB.NET, I think I would prefer to use C# for the same   
   purpose.   
      
   Best regards,   
   Niels   
      
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