Path: csiph.com!xmission!nnrp.xmission!.POSTED.shell.xmission.com!not-for-mail From: nobody@example.org (Scott) Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:55:11 GMT Organization: XMission http://xmission.com/ Message-ID: <5d49ad95.3408225640@core> References: <87zhkrkyq4.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87k1bql4tl.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Injection-Info: news.xmission.com; posting-host="shell.xmission.com:2607:fa18:0:beef::4"; logging-data="21712"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@xmission.com" X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:10128 On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:57:26 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >Peter Percival writes: > >> It seems strange to me that Pascal was invented to teach programming, >> but I can't imagine a university-level course in programming that >> didn't have at least one problem requiring a group of students to >> produce a program with each member doing a bit of the coding. Which >> rather makes Pascal useless for its original purpose, never mind >> industrial work. > >The world of programming was a very different one in 1970. Why would Even into the 1980s. Primary schools were just starting to get 8-bit micros when I was 15 years or so, UCSD Pascal was the language, and it was all one-person assignments. Team projects didn't start showing up until college, by that time it was PCs with Borland software.