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     Re: Pascal Tutor?   
     By: Karel Kral to Charles Stephenson on Thu May 07 2020 21:04:42   
      
      
    CS>> I'm fairly new to programming.  Can someone point to a good program   
    CS>> to use as a tutorial to learn Pascal?   
      
    KK> I do not want to start any flamewar. Just curios - why to learn   
    KK> Pascal? (nowadays).   
      
   why learn pascal? why learn C, BASIC, ASM, C++, C#, or even COBOL or FORTRAN?   
   or maybe even some form of SQL/xBASE?   
      
   they're just languages and they do most all the same stuff... allow you to   
   present an interface to exchange data of some type between entities...   
      
      
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