Subj : Another filearea question To : Mark Lewis From : Mvan Le Date : Tue Jun 12 2007 08:39 am ml> ROTFLMAO!! i guess C coders would think that even if ml> the fact that PASCAL was invented first, by a year, ml> eludes them ;) That makes Pascal even MORE outdated. Are you schizophrenic ? because the train left a long time ago. ml> MvanL> People don't use Pascal for any serious programming, and ml> MvanL> before a debate about that happens I will ask how many ml> MvanL> kernels, Operating Systems, low level device drivers and ml> MvanL> embedded devices are written in Pascal compared to C/C++ :) ml> i guess you don't feel that systems with BASIC as their ml> OS are real systems, either? ;) i'm aware of more than ml> one mini, still in use today, that has BASIC as its ml> core operating system and everything that runs on it is ml> written in BASIC, as well ;) OOooh ... An OS written in BASIC -- I understand the joke now ! Have you considered a career in comedy ? --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Top Hat 2 BBS (1:343/41) .