-=> On 04 Apr 96  09:32:57 Allan Mertner said to Andrew Grillet <=-


 AG> Congratulations. VP sounds so good, I almost ordered it, and I
 AG> don't even know Pascal!

 AM> :-)  It's not really difficult, and the real product is actually
 AM> better than can be described in mere ASCII.  Glad you like the
 AM> description, though :-)

I was moderately serious: the libraries sounded extremely useful,
and I was considering ordering it for them alone.

Actually, I did do some Pascal around 1979/80 - I worked on the
checkweighing system at Mars (as in Mars Bars) and a couple of
other thingies as well.

I remain convinced that Algol68 IS the answer for anything other than
interrupt handlers, and its possibly the answer for them too if you
have a decent compiler.

After 10 years of C++ I still feel unable to say I am good at it -
I feel much more at home with old-fashioned 'ornery' C, and AFAICT
C++ is just too complex for most programmers to learn, and lets face it,
programmers are fairly used to complexity and long learning curves.

Good luck with VP.

Andrew


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