27 May
2020
27 May
'20
2 a.m.
Dan Cross writes:
Of course Pascal was designed specifically for teaching. I learned it in
high school ...
I had a different experience; I learned C in high school at BTL and then took
my first programming class in college which was Pascal and I kept finding it
extremely difficult to use because it was so much less flexible than C.
Until I took that class it had never even occurred to me that people would
write books about the topic as I had leaned from technical memoranda. There
were two books in this class, Wirth's and Fundamental Algorithms. Got Don
to sign my copy a few years ago which he said he wouldn't do unless it looked
really used.
Jon