The older worker suggested that the young engineer check the core stack to see about a problem, but unfortunately, "he'd never heard of a core stack." And when

The older worker suggested that the young engineer check the core stack to see about a problem, but unfortunately, "he'd never heard of a core stack." And when you're done with that check the bit overflow on the accumulator register. "They taught Pascal because it seemed to be pedagogically the best choice," Dewar says. Err, "seemed" to whom? Say what you want about Java, but the tendency of schools to use Pascal was pure brain-damage. And I find it hard to believe that NYU went straight from Pascal to Java with no C/C++ in between. That's scary.