| Author | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| FOH-Master | Hi, I am starting college next year and am choosing computing. The language I am going to be taught is Pascal. I wondered what any one on this forum though of it and if it is any good? Thanks | November 27, 2003, 8:50 PM |
| iago | Pascal is ancient, it's not used for anything useful that I know of. | November 27, 2003, 9:01 PM |
| j0k3r | Take Grok's advice, learn uh... What's that language where all the old people know and are going to retire? | November 27, 2003, 10:24 PM |
| Crypticflare | COBOL | November 27, 2003, 11:28 PM |
| warz | Learn Latin. Latin is pretty old. | November 28, 2003, 3:51 AM |
| Arta | Delphi is pascal, and that's most certainly used in business, though not as much as other things. I think it's a great learning language, personally, but if you want to do anything substantial you'll have to switch to Delphi or learn something else. Before anyone says anything disparaging about Delphi, just remember that it's VCL that's inefficient as hell and the the delphi compiler itsself is perfectly good. | November 28, 2003, 9:12 PM |
| St0rm.iD | Has anyone ported wxWindows to Delphi and made an IDE to make GUIs? Seems like a good idea to me... | November 29, 2003, 2:54 AM |
| vile | Fortran is the old language that all the old people know (hint: that was the language used in the 1970's with punchcards ;D) | January 26, 2004, 2:08 AM |
| iago | [quote author=vile link=board=5;threadid=3900;start=0#msg41147 date=1075082898] Fortran is the old language that all the old people know (hint: that was the language used in the 1970's with punchcards ;D) [/quote] Replying to 4 month old posts is pointless. | January 26, 2004, 2:36 AM |