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- From: Valentin Bonnard <bonnardv@pratique.fr>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.mac
- Subject: Re: Pascal or C++?
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 12:31:53 GMT
- Organization: Internet Way
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- waldo@buffnet.net (Kevin Eye) wrote:
- >>: What's a good language to learn programming ?
- >
- >I'd have to say Think Pascal is good to learn and about the quickest to
- >throw together programs in (of the high level languages/compilers). Don't
- >use HyperCard ( It's great and a real advantage of a mac, but it won't get
- >you anywhere.) or BASIC. If you learn Pascal, C is simple to learn and
- >vice versa, but Think Pascal automates a lot of the tricky compiling
- >stuff, but the language is the same. Maybe I'm biased because I only
- >recently got C with CodeWarrior but I still like the Think Pascal
- >environment better, especially for beginning.
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- I have used Think Pascal and Turbo Pascal for DOS at the same time and tried to run the same programs; the problem with Think Pascal=
- is the number of incompatibilities with Turbo Pascal, one example:
- procedure foo; ... exit (Foo); { Think, not Turbo }
- procedure foo; ... exit; { Turbo, not Think }
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- (But if you wanted to have some compatibility between platforms, you would *not* have chosen Pascal.)
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- I had problems in Think Pascal with the editor too: sometimes, when you make a syntax fault, the editor prevents you from correcting=
- it.
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- Valentin Bonnard
- bonnardv@pratique.fr
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