Subj : Another filearea question
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : Mvan Le
Date : Mon Jun 11 2007 07:04 am

 SH> Hello Hostile,

 SH> On 10/Jun/07 at 03:33 you wrote:

 > No pascal.  If it was C/C++ I wouldn't have a clue, looks like an alien
 > language to me.

 H> Bleh. Not for me then :)

 SH>   Laugh your one of those alien's eh? ;)  My neighbour 

If your home planet is Earth then Pascal programmers are the aliens :)

 SH> is a teacher at a local community college and has all 
 SH> these textbooks on learning to program C++.  He keeps 
 SH> offering them to me, but it just doesn't look anything 
 SH> like that I expect it to.   (Can you tell I'm just stubern?)

Yep. Stubborn are people who vehemently (and annoyingly) advocate DOS and/or 
OS2 and Pascal. I can tell they're trapped in a time warp and are invariably in 
their mid 40s. Time is running out for them. MUAhaha <evil laugh>.

People don't use Pascal for any serious programming, and before a debate about 
that happens I will ask how many kernels, Operating Systems, low level device 
drivers and embedded devices are written in Pascal compared to C/C++ :)

Pascal is suited as a teaching language, and even then I wouldn't recommend it.

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