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He was teaching at UT Austin and Pascal was the CS department's pedagogical language of choice back then, so I presume the answer was yes. Or at least I never h
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
He was teaching at UT Austin and Pascal was the CS department's pedagogical language of choice back then, so I presume the answer was yes. Or at least I never heard him say he hated it.
- perl4ever 7y agoMy impression of Ada via undergraduate exposure at Embry-Riddle was that it was like an industrial strength Pascal. I never thought later on that I needed Ada, but then I didn't go on to work with avionics or anything like that. And I always thought that Pascal+extensions was a pretty good way to develop applications and was disappointed when the Macintosh moved towards C and C++. I learned to write GUI applications with THINK Pascal, before Java existed. In the version of Ada we had, it was DOS based, but I found out that you could use the interrupt API, allowing VGA graphics.