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- From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: hku.open-forum,hku.cc.forum,hk.comp.pc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Pascal worth to learn? Can it help me to get a job?
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 19:07:37 GMT
- Organization: SGI
- Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Jan25110737@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
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- In-reply-to: Ari Lukumies's message of Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:23:09 +0200
-
- In article <31074BFD.4C43@cmt.lpr.mail.carel.fi> Ari Lukumies <aril@cmt.lpr.mail.carel.fi> writes:
-
- > I missed the original posting, but looking at the title it seems that someone
- > wanted to know if Pascal is worth learning. There's a nice article by Brian W.
- > Kernighan that can be found at http://www.lysator.liu.se/c, in which BWK tells
- > us all why he doesn't think Pascal is one of his favorite languages.
-
- Note, though, that he was talking about standard Pascal. It may still
- be true today that standard Pascal is an inadequate language, but it's
- irrelevant; nowadays, when somebody says "Pascal", they almost
- certainly mean some proprietary extended version of Pascal.
-
- Programming in a proprietary language has its disadvantages (it ties
- you to a single vendor and usually to a single platform), but if
- you're willing to live with those disadvantages then maybe some
- version of extended Pascal would be a reasonable choice.
- --
- Matt Austern
- SGI: MTI Compilers Group
- austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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