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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Anyone seen a good Amiga Pascal lately ?  Why not Modula-2?
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Date: 7 Mar 88 13:56:25 GMT
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duncanj@umd5.umd.edu (James Duncan) writes:
>
>What about those people FORCED to use Pascal for academic reasons.
>Say your in a class and are permitted to use any computer but MUST
>program in Pascal! Gee sorry Prof., but real programmers use C. 
>Sorry no-name generic student but real students program in Pascal or
>they don't get a real grade in my all too real class.
>
>Pascal is the de facto academic language. With the emphasis on personal 
>computers these days often students are allowed to use any PC, but due to 
>grading standardization the students are required to program in Pascal. 
>
>
>		Jim Duncan
>			


        You should see if your Prof. will allow you to use Modula-2.

        Modula-2 is the successor language to PASCAL.  Both were created by
Niklaus Wirth.  M2 is the derivative of Modual{-1} and PASCAL.  Modula was a
systems programming language.  The result is a language which gives you all
the niceities of PASCAL (well, most of them :^>), and the low level access
PASCAL denied (which forced us to go to C, or assembly).

        M2 is *VERY* similar to PASCAL, so for grading purposes it should not
        be a burdon to the graders.  I can't see any reason a Prof. in his
right mind would not encourage using M2, as it is a vibrant language, whereas
PASCAL is a dead one :^>.


                                                   Good Luck,


                                                                Wade.

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