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Your eternal soul is at stake

Started by"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com>
First post2016-10-21 09:00 -0700
Last post2016-10-24 22:35 -0700
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  Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 09:00 -0700
    Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 09:46 -0700
    Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 09:59 -0700
    Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 11:02 -0700
      Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 17:52 -0700
        Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 07:30 -0700
          Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 03:36 -0700
            Re: Your eternal soul is at stake gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-10-23 11:43 +0000
    Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 23:25 +0800
      Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-23 17:38 +0200
        Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 23:49 +0800
          Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-23 21:51 +0100
            Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-25 12:55 +0800
            Re: Your eternal soul is at stake BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-10-25 10:29 +0100
              Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-25 11:26 +0100
                Re: Your eternal soul is at stake David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-10-25 12:47 +0200
                  Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-25 12:36 +0100
                Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-25 22:29 +0800
                  Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-25 16:54 +0200
          Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-10-23 19:28 -0400
            Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-10-23 16:33 -0700
              Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-25 12:52 +0800
                Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-10-24 22:35 -0700

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#95215

From"Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Date2016-10-23 16:33 -0700
Message-ID<nujhch$1gq$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#95214
On 10/23/2016 4:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 10/23/2016 11:49 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> On 10/23/2016 11:38 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>> That is beauty of it. Simplicity!
>>> Easy to learn, difficult to master ;)
>>
>> But many schools and universities still wanna use Pascal to teach basic
>> programming.
>>
>> Why must the memory of Pascal language be seeded to students? Something
>> to do with dark psychology? :)
>>
>
> Pascal is still a great learning language.  It forces the student into a
> straight jacket and keeps him/her there.  Students learn structured
> programming better this way, which allows them to write better code in
> other languages.

I have to admit, Pascal is pretty nice language. I can do it...

;^)

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#95257

From"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-25 12:52 +0800
Message-ID<numodf$3js$3@dont-email.me>
In reply to#95215
On 10/24/2016 7:33 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> Pascal is still a great learning language.  It forces the student into a
>> straight jacket and keeps him/her there.  Students learn structured
>> programming better this way, which allows them to write better code in
>> other languages.
>
> I have to admit, Pascal is pretty nice language. I can do it...

Facing the Dark Side of C is a better exercise for students who really 
wanna do programming! Pascal is too easy and simple, sometimes naive! :)

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#95264

From"Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Date2016-10-24 22:35 -0700
Message-ID<numqv6$92b$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#95257
On 10/24/2016 9:52 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 7:33 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>> Pascal is still a great learning language.  It forces the student into a
>>> straight jacket and keeps him/her there.  Students learn structured
>>> programming better this way, which allows them to write better code in
>>> other languages.
>>
>> I have to admit, Pascal is pretty nice language. I can do it...
>
> Facing the Dark Side of C is a better exercise for students who really
> wanna do programming! Pascal is too easy and simple, sometimes naive! :)

;^D

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