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- From: kong@hkusua.hku.hk (someone)
- Subject: Re: Is Pascal worth to learn? Can it help me to get a job?
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- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 06:19:12 GMT
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- In article <DL2tFM.7DJ@hkuxb.hku.hk>, hwslau@dragon.cs.hku.hk (│t└s) wrote:
- >In general, I think Pascal is a good programming language to start with.
- >At least, it is designed for education purposes. Apart from Basic, Pascal
- >was my first programming language learnt. After that, picking up other
- >structured prog. lang. would not be very difficult. In fact, I think you
- >can use Pascal to do anything you want instaed of using other lang.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- I can't agree with this. There are things that you simply can't do in Pascal.
- For example, in C I can swap two integers a and b without using a temporary
- variable in three statements: a ^= b; b ^= a; a^= b , I can also use bit-vectors.
- I can have generic pointers that may point to everything or nothing. I can have
- arrays with no compile-time defined sizes. AFAIK there are no way of doing such
- things in Pascal. At least not in standard Pascal. There are also many fallbacks
- in Pascal that are inconvenient for programmers, e.g. no break within loops.
- That's why there are things like Modula-2.
-
- For the original poster, so far I have only seen one employer in Hong Kong that
- specifically requires Pascal. It's one of those news agencies. And believe it or
- not, they use VAX!!
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- -- All opinions are mine, they do not reflect standings of my employer.
-