Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To : Hemo
From : Vk3jed
Date : Sun Apr 02 2017 07:46 am
-=> Hemo wrote to Deavmi <=-
De> Perl to me is not a nice language. Ugly as hell.
He> Lol - yes, I can see that, though it is a language I do a lot of work
He> in and I try very hard to write in such a way that others can
He> understand, and I comment things heavily. I use Perl for text file
He> manipulations mostly, I think it excels in this area. I have started
He> doing some of my daily taks in bash scripts when I can, because others
He> in our support team understand bash more than Perl.
That was my impression too, though I've really done very little Perl. I'm more
a BASH guy when it comes to scripting.
He> I dabbled in Pascal back in the 1990's, even wrote a few mods for
He> Synchronet back then that never really took off, but you can still find
He> at least one of them in BBS archives. It was my first attempt, and
He> much like the work I do today, it was manipulating a text file to
He> change data. I didn't continue using Pascal, and forgot most things.
I started with TP 3 on CP/M (on a Z80 Softcard in an Apple // no less!) in 1984
at school then progressed to TP on the PC in the mid 1980s and into the early
1990s. I wrote a bit of code, including my own Morse Code tutor, which was the
only way I could obtain one, because there was no Internet in 1989, and I
didn't have a modem anyway, and lived out in the sticks. A few years later,
with the help of a friend for the Z80 assembler, I ported that code to TP 3 on
CP/M, with the assembler timing routines for sound generation and Morse timing
(coded as drop in functions and procedures for their DOS equivalents). That
was released to the public domain on some local BBSs, but I haven't seen a copy
in recent years.
He> In 1981 I wrote a huge multiple choice quiz system in Integer Basic on
He> the Apple ][ series. It was basically a flat file database with a
He> front end and an editor. I aced that class, and it was a fun project.
He> I recall the teacher used the program for a few quizes in the following
He> years. (I gave permission)
Cool. I never did much with integer basic, I was more an Applesoft guy back
then, and once playing with CP/M, it was MBASIC on that platform, though I much
preferred Pascal.
He> I started a class on Python and dropped it because I couldn't get over
He> some things. I can't recall what those things were, I should go take
He> another look at it.
I should look at Python sometime, but I have a ridiculous number of things on
the go these days, relearning Padcal is a lesser learning curve, because a lot
of it will simply come back to me with use.
... Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
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