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     Re: Pascal Tutor?   
     By: Karel Kral to Tony Langdon on Fri May 08 2020 08:04:01   
      
      
    KK>>> I do not want to start any flamewar. Just curios - why to learn   
    KK>>> Pascal? (nowadays).   
      
    TL>> To which, the obvious answer is "why not?" ;)   
      
    KK> If I check news there I can see hundreds of jobs offered. None of   
    KK> them is like looking for Pascal Programmer.   
      
   why would job advertisements have anything to do with the programming language   
   one decides to learn?   
      
    KK> Do take me wrong. I am big fan of Pascal (as this is nearly only   
    LL> thing I can do).   
      
   :)   
      
    KK> I just wanted to know how this happened. Imagin - OK - I new - I   
    KK> want to program something. How to start.  - and then   
    KK> decide for Pascal.   
      
   i cannot say how it happens... perhaps it has to do with one's history and   
   exposure?   
      
   i remember moving from (line number oriented) BASIC to Pascal and ASM... the   
   level of control and detail was great... many of the keywords were the same or   
   similar...   
      
   the main thing i like about pascal is that it doesn't hold the gun, point it   
   at your foot, and pull the trigger for you like some other languages do...   
   pascal is a lot more structured than other languages... you have to define   
   variables before you use them... this helps with typos because the compiler   
   will flag the typo as an unknown variable... if it did like other languages,   
   you'd have a bug that could take days/weeks to find...   
      
   ASM gave me a much deeper level of control... then the world changed and while   
   ASM is still a thing, it isn't as much of a thing as it used to be... even so,   
   it is still extremely handy to be able to whip up a routine in ASM when   
   desired...   
      
      
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