Re: Re: Opinion on Pascal
By: Hemo to Deavmi on Sat Apr 01 2017 01:07 pm
> -=> Deavmi wrote to Hemo <=-
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> De> On 2017-04-01 05:48 AM, Hemo wrote:
> > -=> Deavmi wrote to Hemo <=-
> >
> > >
> > De> Python is technically seen as a scripting language too but atleast i
t's
> > De> better. Idk though. i love Python (you can use it as a command-line,
> > De> just differently).
> >
> >
> > Perl falls to mind as well. now there's one that is confusing. About 15
> > different ways and back to do just about anything, ranging from complete
> > gibberish to human readable. And it all works.
> >
> > ... I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.
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> De> bbs.ujoint.org
> >
> De> Perl to me is not a nice language. Ugly as hell.
>
> Lol - yes, I can see that, though it is a language I do a lot of work in and
I
> try very hard to write in such a way that others can understand, and I comme
nt
> things heavily. I use Perl for text file manipulations mostly, I think it
> excels in this area. I have started doing some of my daily taks in bash
> scripts when I can, because others in our support team understand bash more
> than Perl.
>
> I dabbled in Pascal back in the 1990's, even wrote a few mods for Synchronet
> back then that never really took off, but you can still find at least one of
> them in BBS archives. It was my first attempt, and much like the work I do
> today, it was manipulating a text file to change data. I didn't continue us
ing
> Pascal, and forgot most things.
>
> In 1981 I wrote a huge multiple choice quiz system in Integer Basic on the
> Apple ][ series. It was basically a flat file database with a front end and
an
> editor. I aced that class, and it was a fun project. I recall the teacher
> used the program for a few quizes in the following years. (I gave permissio
n)
>
> I started a class on Python and dropped it because I couldn't get over some
> things. I can't recall what those things were, I should go take another loo
k
> at it.
>
> cheers,
> Hemo
Thanks for the info. Maybe take a look at Python and you can figure those
things out. Maybe it's the heavy use of OOP?
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