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From: rpick@ucqais.uc.edu (Roger Pick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
Summary: we are switching to modula 2
Keywords: 20 years, TRUE?
Message-ID: <1517@ucqais.uc.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 88 14:51:57 GMT
References: <267@lafcol.UUCP>
Organization: Univ of Cincinnati, College of Business Admin.
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In article <267@lafcol.UUCP>, galvinp@lafcol.UUCP (Galvin Paul ) writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This my first message, so please be nice to me....
> 
> I am at Lafayette College as a sophomore and there is a certain
> element that seems to think that Pascal is dying out.  They say that
> in 20 years, it will be long gone.
> 
> Thanx --Paul J. Galvin

The faculty of the Information Systems Group at the University of 
Cincinnati are switching from Pascal to Modula 2 in our first
programming course for majors.  In more advanced courses, we are
phasing out programming using von Neumann languages altogether in
favor of more modern tools: 4GLs like Focus or Nomad, application
generators, report generators, and techniques for evaluation of
software for purchase.  

As to the non-academic world, the employers who hire our students
*never* used Pascal.  They use COBOL, PL/1, or C, but they are
writing fewer and fewer programs.

-- 
Roger Alan Pick - QA & Information Systems Department, University of Cincinnati
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