On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:14:34PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > Pascal is a crappy language to start learning programmin. It is a "bondage and > discipline" language taken to the extreme. Poor Blaise is still spinning :( > > I have learned Pascal in college, two years after I learned C and boy was it > painfull... I bet you learned 'pure' pascal, didn't you? Borland pascals are heavily extended and, IMO, have moved beyond the B&D tendencies of the language's pure form to become Real Languages. (Yes, they even have pointers...) -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox "To prevent unauthorized reading..." - Adobe eBook reader license