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In article <1bg0rt900s.fsf@viper.cs.nmsu.edu>, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

>Having ``taught'' a bunch of people who'd never written a program
>before C, you have no idea how much I wish I'd been teaching Pascal.
>It's a nearly ideal first language -- small, compact, and covers the
>essentials of procedural programming quite well.
>
>Having once written a CT-scan file reader (which involved values
>stored in Data General floating point format) in VAX Pascal, you have
>no idea how glad I am that I'll never write another program that has
>to actually accomplish something in that language.
>
>In other words, it's superb at what it was intended for.  The fact
>that it's lousy at anything else can hardly be held against it.

But people persist in using it for "anything else", i.e., not what it was
intended for.

Delphi seems to be popular with some people.  I guess it's the descendant of
Turbo Pascal in some sense.

-- Derek