On 4/30/06, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:59:50 -0400 (EDT)
"Michael A. Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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".
So we should provide a lazarus 'demo' of some kind as advertising to
CompSci teachers all over the US ? :-)
Here (in France), I've been taught pascal in my 2 first years of
"engineers school" (no better word), especially to learn how to code,
and to use mapple (http://www.maplesoft.com/).
Then it came down to "more advanced codage can't be done with pascal".
Being a user of Delphi back then, I tried to give my 2 cents about how
pascal handle the job at least as well as C, but hey, try to convince
your professors ;) Plus the students themselves knew pascal as "the
dead and useless one".
I'm now in a "programmation school" ( www.epitech.net ), and even if
we see a lot of languages and stuff, we don't see any pascal related
code. Everyone, from students to professors, agrees to say it's dead.
We even learned Lips, but still no pascal ...
When you ask them why they think pascal isn't a "real" language, they
don't really have an answer, or speak about the "strictness" of pascal
(you know, the var section, etc ...), while in the same time we must
respect C 90 specs, wich try to emulate what i see at the base of
pascal strictness.
Plus they think pascal hasn't changed since the 80s.
Lepidosteus
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