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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL?
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:50:47 -0500
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> > Why?  What use would it be?
>
> Writting software ! <G> What * use * else...

I've never found Pascal to be particularly useful
for writing software.  I understand that it was
originally intended for teaching purposes, but
there are some tasks which are so difficult to
do correctly with Pascal that you have to learn
how to program again when you start using a
real language, like C.

And then there's Basic...