Re: Delphi marketing manager..

From: ckd (ckdupont_at__spamno_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:40:59 GMT

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:37:36 -0800, Mike Slinn <mslinn@mslinn.com>
wrote:

>ckd wrote:
>>
>> I was at a party yesterday and ran into a professional software
>> engineer. When I told them my primary language was Delphi, ie, object
>> Pascal their reply was, "Pascal? Isn't that a language used to teach
>> children programming?"
>>
>
>Hello ckd,
>
>I thought Logo (Turtle Graphics) was used for teaching kids programming.
> I remember studying Pascal from the book by Nicklas Wirth in one of my
>university computer courses in 1975. The UCSD p-system was just getting
>started then, I think, and hadn't become well known yet. Today's Delphi
>language, which admittedly has its roots as an Object Pascal, has as
>much resemblance to Pascal as Haskell does to Prolog.
>
>Mike

Hi Mike:

I don't disagree with anything you said. By 'teaching children' I'm
assuming she meant highschool and college 'kids'. My point is the
same, though: this *perception* hurts us professionally (exactly how
much is a matter of particular circumstances and debate, I suppose).
I think marketing could help change this perception. I hope you keep
this in mind.

Thanks for taking the time to read this thread and comment.

-ckd

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