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Pascal was my first "real" language after Basic, learned it in the late 80s, wrote a couple of small apps for my dad in it. Learned most of it from a wonderful
by olvy0 3y ago
Pascal was my first "real" language after Basic, learned it in the late 80s, wrote a couple of small apps for my dad in it.
Learned most of it from a wonderful book whose name I have forgotten, it had a wrench on its cover, I think?
Anyway, still rocking Pascal to this day, since I still maintain 3 moderately complex installers written with InnoSetup, which uses RemObjects Pascal as a scripting language.
4 years ago, a new guy on our team, fresh from school, who never even knew this language existed, picked up Pascal in a week, and started maintaining and developing our installers much further. He did grumble a bit about the syntax but otherwise did a splendid job. I thought that was a tribute to the simplicity of the language.
- lioeters 3y ago> Pascal was my first "real" language after Basic, learned it in the late 80s Me too, word for word. I spent a few years in my pre-teens immersed in the Turbo Pascal IDE, which was a full-on educational tool of its own that explained everything about the language. I moved on to C after that, but I still get a nostalgic vibe from looking at Pascal syntax. It was a great foundational experience for me as a programmer.
- ksec 3y ago>He did grumble a bit about the syntax but otherwise did a splendid job. I thought that was a tribute to the simplicity of the language. I still to this day dont understand why vast majority of people in programming dislike the syntax of Pascal.