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- From: tangent@cyberport.com (Warren Young)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 08:36:27 GMT
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- danat@tribeca.ios.com (Dana Taylor) wrote:
-
- >>Ask your teacher to stuff Pascal :-) Seriously, learn C/C++ on your
- >
- >Whooo! Pascal is still very much alive and growing today. In fact, one of the
- >most popular new Windows development languages is Delphi (really just a Visual
-
- That's a different story. In general, Pascal is a purposely
- underweight, emasculated language suitable only for teaching
- programming, and as a common ground between most modern, procedural
- languages.
-
- Borland Pascal, on the other hand, is really a C++ spin-off with
- different keywords and a somewhat different philosophy. Or, it's to
- standard Pascal as C++ is to C, only more so.
-
- Because of Borland, you really can't talk about C versus Pascal
- anymore. You either have to talk about C++ versus Borland Pascal (a
- close match) or C/C++ versus some "standard" flavor of Pascal (a
- shoo-in for C/C++, if you're talking about professional development).
-
- Please, no flames. I've gone over this ground too many other times
- already to know that there is no "right" answer. Choose your tools
- based on your philosophy and your needs. Everything else must take a
- back seat to that.
-
- = Warren --
-