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From: jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
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Date: 2 Nov 88 09:41:55 GMT
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Personally, I don't think that PASCAL will die so soon.  It'll probably last
for more than another two decades.

From my experience, many more intermediate and high schools are teaching
PASCAL because its a modularized lanaguage unlike BASIC with all of its GOTOs.
Most of the schools that I've seen teaching PASCAL chose it over MODULA because
its not as teadious and they both seem to have the same basic modular
structure.  Many schools still teach a bit of BASIC before PASCAL though.

As for the business world ... (since I'm primarily in the MSDOS areana, what I
have to say only applies to this arena).  In the past two years, with the
rapidly standardized TURBO PASCAL ... many programs written in PASCAL has
been cropping up on the market.  Programs ranging from $10 to $800.

In conclusion.  From the way things look, PASCAL is here to stay for quite
some time.  Besides, they said that FORTRAN and COBOL is old and obsolete and
should be placed on a back shelf ...  Well, obviously, they've now become the
"grand-daddies" of programming languages, but they haven't died yet; so why
should PASCAL die so quickly?

-- J. Chin (a.k.a. Computer Dr.)

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[Disclaimer:  As always, everything above is my own opinion and not of
              Carnegie Mellon University or of my employer.]