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From: sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
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Date: 13 Oct 88 23:32:50 GMT
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From article <267@lafcol.UUCP>, by galvinp@lafcol.UUCP (Galvin Paul ):
> 
> 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.

  I don't believe that Pascal is used much by serious programmers
developers anymore, thank/blame C for that.

  But Pascal is still perfect for its originally intended purpose:
teaching the elements of computer programming to students. It is
still my language of choice for school assignments or professional 
programming.

					Sean Brunnock