Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 27 Mar 2026 21:09:34 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <10ojmjv$2ashr$1@dont-email.me> <10q03vf$1o2ev$1@dont-email.me> <10q0c18$1qua9$1@dont-email.me> <10q0f40$1s10c$1@dont-email.me> <10q1etr$9gh8$1@artemis.inf.ed.ac.uk> <10q2o3v$nqm7$1@news1.tnib.de> <60if9mxs24.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1774533248-12588@newsgrouper.org> <10q40n7$33r2s$3@dont-email.me> <10q5hcp$u3dn$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net I06FftLMvF/m1itXkHA1hw9oSWtRjbWr9r3d0uWBWxYhKaS+2S Cancel-Lock: sha1:x9p4pfWutFTkSkAWaNM6Vfs6jm8= sha256:ooYVBVCZNoagW5tNT4nNzxB7Hg3LCq7SZ5ODInbVr1E= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84214 alt.usage.english:1141153 On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:07:36 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>Pascal was crap compared to FORTRAN BASIC and C which I already knew > > Pascal was designed to teach. And it did that job well. > > Greetings Marc The University of Maine used Pascal as a didactic language and one of my clients tended to hire the young engineers from UM. Pascal was not designed for process control, robotic arm manipulations, and other real world activities. I made money writings libs, modules, or whatever Pascal used for extensions. I forget what they were called.