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Re: Is Pascal utterly useless?

From nobody@example.org (Scott)
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Is Pascal utterly useless?
Date 2019-08-06 16:55 +0000
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On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:57:26 +0100, Ben Bacarisse
<ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:

>Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> 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.

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Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-02 15:05 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-08-02 15:57 +0000
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-02 17:55 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-08-02 23:07 +0100
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-03 15:58 +0100
      Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-08-06 15:57 +0100
        Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-08-06 16:55 +0000
        Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-07 14:33 +0100
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-03 14:58 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-08-02 16:56 -0700
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2019-08-03 09:33 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 06:43 -0700
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-07 15:13 +0100
  Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-02 20:38 +0100
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-09-02 16:02 -0500
    Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-04 16:15 +0100
      Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-06 19:28 +0100
        Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-08 15:12 +0100

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