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Subject: Pcode(sort of) and Higher education
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Date: 8 Jun 89 05:18:00 GMT
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P-code; for some reason I always equate P with Pascal.  I know this is not
what P-code actually is, but it still brings up the Nasty smell of the
tight "type" pascal!  I hate to say this...but I really dislike pascal.  I
am very glad Apple adopted when it did( due to someone spending hours and
hours setting up a pascal system in apple)...but really hate mixing C and
pascal.  It does not really bother me to the point of getting really p.o.'d,
but wonder if Pascal should be taught in Higher education, since this
"teaching" leaks out into the real world.  If it had some features that
were good for something other than getting a point across, maybe I could
be shot down.  Amiga set up their system under C (arggg  C, the nasty demon
of unstructed programming) years ago.  What I really like about C is the
less amount of typing....(but not debugging).  Oh no...not another = instead
of ==!  Oh well, get pissed off and just use && and hope nothing gets through
it.  I guess Apple and most other people think: "If they know C, then they
know Pascal.  Lets use Pascal."  Whats a Begin anyway, other than an over-
stated {.

Just rambling about Higher education, and the MIS managers that dont even
know what a program is...let alone the MBA's.  Sometimes I wonder if some
of the Dr's even know what a program is...

srh   (it has not been stated that I know what a program is though...)

rambling on again and again.  One day I may even say something worthwhile