Re: Am I wasting my time learning Pascal?
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Date: 03/29/05
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Date: 29 Mar 2005 03:12:20 -0800
Sm704 wrote:
> I recently became interested in learning how to program, and I have
> chosen Turbo Pascal as the language to start with.
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> I was wondering if I made a bad choice by choosing Turbo Pascal as my
> first programming language. I've read many articles and usenet posts
> about how Pascal is usally the first programming language taught to
> students and beginner programmers, but these are old articles I'm
> reading. Do those statements still apply in today's programming
world?
> Turbo Pascal seems a little outdated, and information about it is
> getting more difficult to find on the internet.
Borland's Turbo Pascal finished up with version 7 sometime in 1992 (i
think). It was designed with ease of use and MSDOS in mind and excels
at both.
it's not standard pascal though, for that you could look at gnu pascal,
and there is a version for windows, along with an IDE and a nice help
file:
http://www.gnu-pascal.de/contrib/chief/win32/dev_gnu_pascal-1.9.2.exe
If you prefer borland's extra's then gnu pascal copes with most of
them, as does freepascal.
Remembr that TP from version 5.5 also had object oriented features in
the langauge and the abvoe two also support that.
> Should I have chosen to learn standard C instead of Turbo Pascal? I
> just hope all these days of staying up untill 6:00 AM reading about
> Pascal pays off...
if you focus on structured programming, learning how to use functions
and procedures, structured records and variables, operators and so on -
then you'll have learned the foundations and you can build on that.
It doesn't matter too much which language you learn those things in,
but generally you learn better in a language that best encourages solid
structure from the ground up - pascal is therefore a good choice.
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