Where's the Pascal?

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I was just thinking that when I was in school (back in the pre-internet days) they taught all the programming classes in Pascal. And yet, I don't see anybody here writing programming challenge code in Pascal.

Where's the Pascal?

Where's the love?

[Strike]

Heh, I only tolerated Pascal long enough to pass CS in high school. I was always coding C/C++ on the side :)

[unruly]

I still know a little pascal

[inkedmn]

/me doesn't know crap about pascal :)

[kmj]

/me did pascal in AP Comp Sci; then promptly forgot about it, doing C++ all through college.

Lately, most early programming classes seem to be just use java.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I thought it was a good learning language. But I remember HATING the fact that you could never tell where the program entry point was.

Every method has a "BEGIN" and "END" line. The END statement is usually followed by a semi colon. Where is the "main" method in Pascal? It's the BEGIN line whose associated END line is followed by a period instead of a semicolon.

WTF!!!

Yeah, about the time I got to San Diego State I was asking if I could do all my assignments in C or C++ instead.

Although I must admit that I really like the old (late 80's early 90's) Borland Turbo Pascal environment. It was cool.

[Ludootje]

Does pascal work on linux? I had some programming classes two years ago, and that was in pascal too (using turbo pascal, that's when I started hating DOS:)). The course was very bad (at the end, we had still no idea what Compile -> Compile was for, it's only MONTHS later I found out what compiling was :)), but pascal was nice iirc. Haven't seen anything about a pascal compilter for linux though.

[Strike]

Yeah, GNU even has a compiler for it - gpc

[Ludootje]

Originally posted by Strike
Yeah, GNU even has a compiler for it - gpc
thanks :)
gcc, g++, gnat, gpc,... is there anything for which GNU doesn't have a compiler for :)

[stuka]

Originally posted by Ludootje
thanks :)
gcc, g++, gnat, gpc,... is there anything for which GNU doesn't have a compiler for :) Yes - Visual Basic (thank goodness!).
I had the option to learn Pascal (my CS requirements said 1 of VB, Ada, or Pascal). I chose VB (because it was available in a convenient time slot, and I figured it could never hurt to be able to read the code).

[Strike]

Originally posted by Stuka
Yes - Visual Basic (thank goodness!).
I had the option to learn Pascal (my CS requirements said 1 of VB, Ada, or Pascal). I chose VB (because it was available in a convenient time slot, and I figured it could never hurt to be able to read the code).
Hmm, what do those languages have to do with one another? It's not like they gave you a choice between Lisp, Scheme, or O'Caml ... that would sound like a "functional language competency" requirement ... those three languages are all quite different.

[file13]

i'm an Ada coder--which is Pascal after bootcamp--and put some up in the competitions. never learned Pascal though. picked up Ada sometime after C and liked it MUCH better. but yeah, no Delphi/Kylix hacker either...<SMARTASS>they must be DEAD....</SMARTASS> ;)

[sunnysc]

Originally posted by Dru Lee Parsec
I was just thinking that when I was in school (back in the pre-internet days) they taught all the programming classes in Pascal. And yet, I don't see anybody here writing programming challenge code in Pascal.

Where's the Pascal?

Where's the love?

sir pascal is still used as academic subject in bachleors degree in
comp.sci at mambai university.

i my self had done three sems. of pascal out there.
but nothing as good as c/c++.

[HeXx]

I know Pascal... I wanna learn C++, too, but don't know where to start.. :(

[Flangazor]

I had classes where we had to do the same assignment in three languages. One time I did an assignment in Objective Pascal, C++, and Modula-3.

I told u I was hardcore.

[sunnysc]

Originally posted by HeXx
I know Pascal... I wanna learn C++, too, but don't know where to start.. :(

see all basic data structures remain same only change is in there syntax also fatures of that language to a given data structure.

To start with C++ u can go on with this book

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING BY ROBERT LAFORE.
best up till now.

if you have any problem in with codes or programm. I'am always there.

[Blag]

Pascal is a great programming language....that's for sure....I like C++ more, but Pascal is always a good choice for DOS programs.:angry:

[|dre|]

I'm in a first year computer systems technology course, and in the first term we learned Pascal :D