What's a good pascal book that's relevant to the newest version? I'm trying to find books but I don't want to get one that's from 1980 by accident or something and find it doesn't help with my class at all.
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Anonymous2008-07-12 13:06
If you're taking a Pascal class ask your teacher what a good book is.
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Anonymous2008-07-12 13:07
I would, but class doesn't start until September. I thought I may as well get a head start so I'm not lost.
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Not at all. What should matter is that it was written by Kernighan, who hates PASCAL. It's an interesting read.
Also, it's only 4 years older than SICP.
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Anonymous2008-07-12 14:31
Dear newcomers to computer programming. You may have heard that computer technology advances faster than anything before it. This is true of hardware, but it is not true of software. Practically everything new in programming languages was first introduced in 1958 with McCarthy's original Lisp1 and Smalltalk in the 70s. Those `new' languages you've heard about in the last five years have been recycling these fresh 30-year old ideas like motherfuckers. Most of the actual interesting development on programming methodology in the last 20 years is crystallized on the Haskell programming language2. Just because those books are older than you doesn't mean that they aren't relevant.
__________________________________________ 1Yes, it sucked, but it got the main idea right. 2I don't particularly like Haskell, but what I said happens to be the truth. Shut the fuck up.
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Anonymous2008-07-12 14:34
>>7
So true. I think I've read that before, or at least something very similar to that.