Subj : program echo;
To : Tom De Puysseleyr
From : Niels Joncheere
Date : Mon Oct 02 2017 11:03 pm
Hallo Tom,
Op 30 Sep 17 om 10:20 schreef jij aan Joaquim Homrighausen:
TP> 29 Sep 17 23:58, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
JH>> Traditional Pascal *is* quite stale, but was used a lot to teach
JH>> people programming ...
TP> I learned myself how to program in Basic on an Apple //e, and later in
TP> learned pascal. I used that a lot in the good old Fidonet days, it was
TP> great fun! But then I learned VB6 at school and forgot everything
TP> about Pascal... I still use VB.Net that now on a daily basis at work..
Back when I was in secondary school in the 90s, Pascal was taught to some
students of our school, though not to my own class. I taught myself BASIC, and
later VB.NET. I recently looked at the ErrFlags Pascal code for reasons similar
to Wilfred's, and was actually quite positively surprised by the language
itself: it seems to promote a 'better' style of programming than VB. In most
current applications of VB.NET, I think I would prefer to use C# for the same
purpose.
