From: Robert Dober Date: 2007-07-19T04:46:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns On 7/18/07, Lloyd Linklater wrote: > Robert Klemme wrote: > > PS: Robert, IMHO Pascal is a great language for learning to program > > because it omits the dimension of OO and allows to focus on proper > > structuring. Also, it's far more readable than C. > > Actually, Delphi came out 12 years ago and Pascal was object oriented > before that. > > Just keeping the record straight. Well no that I am done with the bookkeeping I can answer this :) I was very greatfull to learn programming with Pascal, but nowadays it seems a little bit out fashioned nevertheless, maybe one should learn with Smalltalk nowadays, or even Ruby, a subset of Ruby to begin with... -- I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby -- Kent Beck