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Pascal as a first programming language

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 2:39

Did anyone else here learn Pascal as their first programming language? I did in college when I was a freshman. I don't want to state the year; I feel old enough already.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 2:53

Pascal? I don't go back before 1845 sorry OP.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 2:59

>>2
There were no computers in 1845.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 3:23

Pascal as a crap programming language

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 3:29

My computer science teacher from high school did.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 3:32

Apple and Atari BASIC, but that was like 4th grade and I mostly just copied stuff out of BYTE magazine and such.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 3:41

>>3
Pascal was ahead of it's time.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 3:54

>>1
No, but Pascal was the first language I learned in High School. Shit sucked. I'm having trouble grasping why a language with so many restrictions is considered suitable for giving youngsters a first taste of programming. The first thing they should learn is how to cope with a solution space much larger than they can comprehend.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 4:32

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 12:17

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Name: FrozenVoid 2009-03-02 12:39

>>10
http://frozenvoid.blogspot.com/2009/01/bbcode-editor-for-shiichan.html

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Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 16:35

<B>HOW I BOLD</b>

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-02 16:37

>>9
Real Programmers Don't Let Unreal Programmers Use Pascal!

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-03 1:00

I started with some raw BASIC where you had to write line numbers and LIST statements to see what you've coded. QBasic was a godsend after that. But nothing was as awesome as when I pirated Borland Turbo Basic which I taught myself and used all through highschool. It was fast. The IDE was slick. I wrote 3d polygon engines, partially duplicated the DOOM engine, and the inline asm let me write even faster code.

At the time I felt bad that I didn't know C or C++, and assumed I should have been learning them. But every time I picked up those fugly piece of shit languages, my skin would crawl and soon I was back to the clean syntax, and clear structure of Pascal.

Ten years later I know for sure what I could only intuitively feel back then: C and especially C++ are some of the worst things that have ever happened to software developers.

Name: FrozenVoid 2009-03-03 1:26

>>14
I recall first time i tried to write something with Borland C++.
It was like 6-7 years ago. It took 3 hours to stop giving errors.
The syntax and precision required to write something were several orders of magnitude higher then Qbasic:
Qbasic(iirc 4.5 Pro) was pretty unforgiving of errors at the time. It was however pretty decent at debugging these errors.   

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Name: Anonymous 2009-03-03 5:11

My physics/math teacher from highschool did.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-03 13:55

>>14
C and especially C++ are some of the worst things that have ever happened to software developers.
True, but Pascal is also computer unscientific and so on.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-03 19:32

>>17
I JUST LOST THE COMPUTER

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-03 19:43

>>14
I wrote 3d polygon engines in QBasic that ran at reasonable rates.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-03 20:09

PASCAL ADVANCED SOURCE CODE APPLICATIONS LANGUAGE

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-04 2:06

Pascal is still being taught as a first language for the ICT A-level.  The English education system is so far behind the times that they haven't even discovered Java yet.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-04 4:03

>>22
The English education system is so far behind the times that they haven't even discovered Java yet.
In Scotland, we were taught Visual Basic. I'd honestly have prefered Pascal

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-04 6:08

>>23
Same here, in England. I would prefer to have learned LITHP.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-04 7:31

>>23
I had a java course at uni in 2000.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-04 7:36

>>25
I had a java course at uni in 2000.
ICT A-level
We were talking about High School

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-04 7:52

>>26
He was talking about the English education system

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-04 10:01

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Name: Anonymous 2009-03-04 16:58

>>28
STUCTURE AND INTERPRETATION OF CODING PASCAL

Exercise 1.1

Write a recursive procedure that prints PASCAL ADVANCED SOURCE CODE APPLICATIONS LANGUAGE ADVANCED SOURCE CODE APPLICATIONS LANGUAGE ADVANCED SOURCE CODE APPLICATIONS LANGUAGE ...

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 7:11

>>29
Pascal has recursion? Isn't that ultimately harmful?

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