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From: sharvy@reed.UUCP (Harvey Marvy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Let's Pretend
Keywords: pascal, c, modula, compilers
Message-ID: <15744@reed.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 04:09:36 GMT
Reply-To: sharvy@reed.UUCP (Harvey Marvy)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Let's pretend you just got a new se-30 with 5 megs of ram and a big fat hard
you-know-what.  Let's also pretend that you know a lot about BASIC (and will
admit it) a moderate amount about Pascal, and a minor amount about C.  So 
you're a "language-sensitive" guy not fluent in any "real" languages, and you
want to buy one (1) for your new Mac, grow with it, and cherish it forever.  
But of course, there's all these different versions of these different
versions--Think (and is this different from Think Lightspeed?) Turbo, etc.,
plus this Modula stuff which keeps getting bigger.  What would you get?  In
short, which single programming package would all you macho pros out there get
if you could start all over again and get THE best, purest, simplest, easiest,
neatest, modernest, language for your Mac?

Let's also pretend that no question like this has ever been posted to this
group before.  (I'm new here, but I bet it's a common topic.)

Thanks, 

Ben.