Re: Is Pascal utterly useless?

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Is Pascal utterly useless?
Date	2019-08-06 15:57 +0100
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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
you want students to learn the JCL magic that tells the CDC 6000
operator to install the tape that contains the compiled module from
student A just so that it can be linked with student B's code when they
can just put the card desks together?  Cooperative programming was
leaving a blue card sticking out of the deck where that routine you
didn't write should go!

By the time interactive editors, PCs and cheap multi-user mini systems
came along, every actual Pascal implementation had some sort of support
for modules.

-- 
Ben.

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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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