SH> Hello Hostile,

 SH> On 10/Jun/07 at 03:33 you wrote:

 > No pascal.  If it was C/C++ I wouldn't have a clue, looks like an alien
 > language to me.

 H> Bleh. Not for me then :)

 SH>   Laugh your one of those alien's eh? ;)  My neighbour 

If your home planet is Earth then Pascal programmers are the aliens :)

 SH> is a teacher at a local community college and has all 
 SH> these textbooks on learning to program C++.  He keeps 
 SH> offering them to me, but it just doesn't look anything 
 SH> like that I expect it to.   (Can you tell I'm just stubern?)

Yep. Stubborn are people who vehemently (and annoyingly) advocate DOS
and/or OS2 and Pascal. I can tell they're trapped in a time warp and are
invariably in their mid 40s. Time is running out for them. MUAhaha .

People don't use Pascal for any serious programming, and before a debate
about that happens I will ask how many kernels, Operating Systems, low
level device drivers and embedded devices are written in Pascal compared to
C/C++ :)

Pascal is suited as a teaching language, and even then I wouldn't recommend it.

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