Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To   : Hemo
From : Deavmi
Date : Sat Apr 01 2017 04:03 pm

 Re: Re: Opinion on Pascal
 By: Hemo to Deavmi on Sat Apr 01 2017 01:07 pm

> -=> Deavmi wrote to Hemo <=-
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>  De> On 2017-04-01 05:48 AM, Hemo wrote:
>  > -=> Deavmi wrote to Hemo <=-
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  De> Python is technically seen as a scripting language too but atleast i
t's
>  >  De> better. Idk though. i love Python (you can use it as a command-line,
>  >  De> just differently).
>  >
>  >
>  > Perl falls to mind as well. now there's one that is confusing.  About 15
>  > different ways and back to do just about anything, ranging from complete
>  > gibberish to human readable.  And it all works.
>  >
>  > ... I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.
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>  De>  bbs.ujoint.org
>  >
>  De> Perl to me is not a nice language. Ugly as hell.
>
> Lol - yes, I can see that, though it is a language I do a lot of work in and
I
> try very hard to write in such a way that others can understand, and I comme
nt
> things heavily.   I use Perl for text file manipulations mostly, I think it
> excels in this area.  I have started doing some of my daily taks in bash
> scripts when I can, because others in our support team understand bash more
> than Perl.
>
> I dabbled in Pascal back in the 1990's, even wrote a few mods for Synchronet
> back then that never really took off, but you can still find at least one of
> them in BBS archives.  It was my first attempt, and much like the work I do
> today, it was manipulating a text file to change data.  I didn't continue us
ing
> Pascal, and forgot most things.
>
> In 1981 I wrote a huge multiple choice quiz system in Integer Basic on the
> Apple ][ series.  It was basically a flat file database with a front end and
an
> editor.  I aced that class, and it was a fun project.  I recall the teacher
> used the program for a few quizes in the following years.  (I gave permissio
n)
>
> I started a class on Python and dropped it because I couldn't get over some
> things.  I can't recall what those things were, I should go take another loo
k
> at it.
>
> cheers,
>   Hemo

Thanks for the info. Maybe take a look at Python and you can figure those
things out. Maybe it's the heavy use of OOP?

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