Hi, On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 4:30 AM Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > my first PC at home was a 386DX/40 in about 1991/1992
I'm American, but we're roughly the same age, and I started with a 486 SX/25 in 1994. > All the school had at the time was Pascal with objects I've become a big fan of Pascal in the past decade or so. Turbo Pascal was really well done, but there were others too. > I recall that two of the best students coded a software app in > Borland Pascal with Turbovision for creating daily/weekly teaching > schedules for the school. A pretty advanced piece of software, > considering use of objects / "dynamic data", the data model, and the > algorithmic manipulation / application of constraints etc. Impressive! Niklaus Wirth (RIP) did a lot of teaching, writing, and programming over the course of his career. His work (Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, et al.) either directly helped or inspired a ton of people. Even if you ignore DOS and Turbo Pascal (or even Delphi), there's still plenty to learn from him and followers of such languages. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
