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Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
Date	2024-09-24 17:49 +0000
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:45:16 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> But my #1 fave is still Pascal. Poetry
>    Thank you professor Wirth !

It isn't my favorite but Pascal wasn't bad after some real world additions 
took it out of the academic world sort of like the impurities introduced 
into common lisp made it usable.

U of Maine used Pascal for a didactic language. Sprague Electric tended to 
hire UM graduates. Pascal wasn't great for automated testing, process 
control, or robotic arm manipulators so I had some good paydays writing 
modules they could use.

>    Hey, want "Real Computing" ? Try FORTRAN or COBOL. THOSE were the
>    foundation and persist to this day. Wrote a FORTRAN app just a couple
>    of years ago - mostly to vex the New Guys. Also a short COBOL app,
>    that oughtta REALLY give 'em the shits !

FORTRAN IV was my first language  This spring our department moved and in 
the process I found some of my old books that I hadn't used in years. I 
realized the F77 book was as hopelessly out of date as the C++ books, 
including an early Stroustrup. The Java book from the '90s was a slender 
little thing compared to the huge later additions, and the Python 2.x 
references weren't too useful.

otoh, the C and POSIX books were as valid as ever.

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        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2024-09-22 05:56 -0700
  Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Grzesiek11 <grzesiek11@stary.pc.pl> - 2024-09-23 18:26 +0200
  Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-09-24 02:45 -0400
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-24 07:17 +0000
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-09-24 11:16 +0100
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-09-25 02:00 -0400
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-09-25 01:44 -0400
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-25 06:46 +0000
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-09-25 07:25 +0000
          Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-09-25 19:11 +0000
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-24 10:01 +0200
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-09-25 02:28 -0400
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-25 06:48 +0000
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> - 2024-09-24 15:46 +0000
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-24 17:04 +0100
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-24 21:03 +0000
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-09-24 17:49 +0000
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-24 21:02 +0000
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-09-24 18:24 +0000
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-24 20:15 +0100
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-09-24 23:17 +0000
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-09-25 00:52 +0000
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> - 2024-09-24 19:04 +0000
  Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-09-24 11:21 +0100
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