> I can answer that. It isn't taught in school at all. If you go to any
> school and I mean any school that teaches CompSci in any way they will
> tell you that, "Pascal is a dead and useless language. Nobody uses Pascal
> anymore".
This was almost the exact quotation I heard from people on a local linux
mailing list
community when I mentioned something about Pascal..
The best way to respond to people like this is to help them with their Perl
problems once
in a while.. they will respect that you helped them, then they might respect
you more for
what language you use. I know nothing about perl but I still answer some
questions
because the languages have something in common when it comes to a certain way
to solve a
problem, etc. It's sort of "passive" marketting, as opposed to active
marketing. Active
marketing would be to tell someone pascal Kicks Ass who you know is already
using a
language similar to Pascal - there are quite a few people in Java who can
relate to Pascal
since it has strong typing in common.
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