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From: James Hague
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 14:53

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Andrew R. Southwick writes:
>
>> I've just started my quest to be a gaming programmer, and at age
>> 15, I'm learning Think Pascal on the mac.
>
>        Pascal?  Pascal is a B&D language...  Why?
>
>        If you want to write games, then I would recommend getting either
>an assembler or C.  Pascal does not have the low-level bit-twiddling capabil-
>ities that either of these other languages do

Please, none of this religious stuff.  There have been many games,
for the Mac and other computers, written in Pascal.  Glider (the
shareware version at least) was written with Think Pascal.

--
James Hague   
exuhag@exu.ericsson.se

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Subject: Re: beginners on mac?
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