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 Message 371 
 Joaquim Homrighausen to Wilfred van Velzen 
 program echo; 
 29 Sep 17 23:58:14 
 
 wvv> It's an ancient language. ;)

  Yes, but all you need to do is to add # or + after it, and it's a completely
brand new and fantastic language, really! Or you can add a period/dot
somewhere in the middle, like Pas.Cal and you'll have tons of gurus swearing
by its greatfulness ... :-\

 wvv> The only time I seriously used it was during my study, more than
 wvv> 30 years ago. I forgot most of it's details, I probably couldn't
 wvv> write a simple hello world program if they put a gun to my head.
 wvv> ;)

Traditional Pascal *is* quite stale, but was used a lot to teach people
programming ...

 wvv> But I did some simple changes to the errflags program recently,
 wvv> which is written in pascal. Making changes to existing code is
 wvv> much easier...

:)

Whatever gets the job done.



 -joho

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