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jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) writes:

>najork@pa.dec.com (Marc Najork) writes:

>First, Pascal is a ancient joke, you can't really do anything real in
>it today and in my opinion those schools that teach it are too
>bleeping lazy to change CS1 to a practical language.  
	Pascal was deloped as and should be used as a teaching language.  
It's primemery goal is to create readabul, stable code.  It is not built 
to do anthing serouis

>(My
>undergraduate institution UCI said they were going to convert to Ada,
>that was 10+ years ago) Pascal's antiquated design makes wonderful
>fodder for C programmers to ridicule pascal style languages ({} vs
>begin/end, etc)
Whats more readabule begin/end or {}.

>From what I have seen in research, Unix/C/C++ almost completely
>dominatates most software oriented parts of computer science like
>operating systems, etc.

	Only in mirica in europe modula 2 dominates.
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