🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 07 May 2000 18:45:16 GMT, John Englund <je@nowhere.com> wrote:
>In article <3914E9D6.CAE33C3A@boutel.co.nz>, brian@boutel.co.nz says...
>>
>> But through her promotion of Cobol arguably did more damage to the IT
>> industry than anyone else (except possibly IBM).
>
>  This is utter nonsense.

IMHO any broad sweeping statement is suspect.  Anyway It can't be worse
that RPG :-)

>> She wasn't always a nice person, either. When Pascal was fashionable,
>> she attempted, while giving a talk in Australia, to dismiss it with a
>> nasty ad hominem argument.
>
>  And you think that Pascal has done much in the computer industry?  For
>a few (very) short years in the mid 80's, Turbo Pascal made the language
>at least semi-usable, but other than that it has done nothing for the
>industry .. it was merely a "toy" learning tool for universities.

In its place Pascal is a *very useful* learning tool.  I wouldn't write
any serious programs in it, but that doesn't make it useless.  Many
programmers were introduced to structured programming through Pascal.
Its B&D nature and lack of power are the Right Thing (TM) for an
educational language.

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