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From: Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Recommendation for a text
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:54:15 -0800
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Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:

> On 2012-03-06, Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> wrote:
>> jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) writes:
>>
>>> In article
>>> <17597176.384.1330953683846.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynca15>,
>>> John Coleman  <jcoleman@franciscan.edu> wrote:
>>>>Also - I am open to ideas about projects for the students to work on.
>>>
>>> The first 'major' programs i wrote for both BASIC and Pascal were
>>> adventure games.  This is how i learned that Pascal sucks.
>>
>> Pascal sucks for major programs because it was designed for teaching,
>> not for major programs.
>
> Note: so was BASIC.

The original BASIC sucked for major programs even more than Pascal :)

There were versions of BASIC and Pascal that were more usable, but they
had nonportable extensions.

-- Patrick