On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:23:49PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > 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...) You lost :) It was Turbo Pascal 5.5... And don't get me started on pointer in Pascal or I/O in Pascal... florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4