Am Mittwoch, dem 14.02.07, schrieb eng@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I hope you enjoy freepascal on linux. Much to learn, many fine
> people.
What were your reasons to choose Pascal as programming language? I
mean, there are quite a lot of other programming languages, C, C++,
Java, etc.
For myself I at first did some programming with Basic (that was with
my dos pc). I even attended some courses about Basic programming. I
found it very fascinating, although Basic was a bit of primitive.
Then Pascal entered the scene and I was really fascinated by the
possibilities which programming gave to me. Not that I was a
professional programmer, but I enjoyed it very much. Still I think it
is great when you can tell your pc what is should do - and it really
works.
I used Turbo Pascal at that time which was a very fine programming
environment. But eventually we bought a new pc, the one at which I am
sitting at this moment. This is a PII/266 which in the first years was
running under WIN98. Unfortunately my Turbo Pascal did not function
with that new pc, and I had quite a lot of other things to do. So my
programming activities seized for several years.
I did creat some html pages and therefore I did some Javascript, but
wasn't very fond of that. I prefer straight html, don't like all that
Javascript hullygully. When I create a html page I want it to be as
fast as possible for the visitor, no big graphic files, no slow
scripts. And of course the safety aspect.
Now my son will start informatics at school. He attends the Megina-
Gymnasium at Mayen (comparable to an american high school), next year
class 11. Unfortunately they do not teach informatics in the earlier
cl***** there, quite a pity. But when he told me about this, I decided
to try again with Pascal.
I have some books from my former experiments, so these are some 15 to
20 years out. Where did the years go to?
Well, do you know "Oh! Pascal! by Doug Cooper and Michael Clancy?
That is a very good book for self studying Pascal.
Greetings from Arft,
Dirk Weber
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