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From: jamesv@hplsla.HP.COM (James Vasil)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
Message-ID: <6490001@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 88 14:06:05 GMT
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> 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.
> 
> Is there any basis for this?  I hardly see anyone who is in the
> business of writing programs or such and I would not be able to
> determine the truth of this.
> 
> Thanx --Paul J. Galvin
> ----------

20 years is an awfully long time in this business.  My guess would
be that yes, that far in the future Pascal will no longer be used
too much.  The same statement may be made for each of the other
programming languages currently in vogue (if this doesn't come 
about then CS will have not progressed much beyond today's state
of the art, and I don't think that will be the case).

If you come out of school knowing Pascal, C, Ada (at least some),
and Lisp (at least some) you should be employable and able to learn
new languages as they come into existance.

						Regards,
						James

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