Subj : Re: Pascal compiler of ch To : Vk3jed From : Deavmi Date : Fri Jun 09 2017 21:37:00 On 08/06/2017 04:32, Vk3jed wrote: > -=> Deavmi wrote to Vk3jed <=- > > > De> Very fun. I love the syntax. Old languages are fun. I was never around > De> in those times (born in 1999) but hell do I love them. My grand mother > De> was a systems analyst and did Fortran, COBOL, Pascal and probably more > De> back in those days. > > I never got my head around C. One reason was a really bad lecturer at uni, who > also put me off *NIX, until I had a project that required Linux, then I was > hooked. :-) But for C, the damage was done, and I haven't had the time to > learn a totally new language. For me, the hardest part is not the structure of > a program, but the specifics. My natural mode of thought is non verbal (and > probably worth a PhD study :D ), my memory is such that I remember broader > concepts rather than syntactic speciicifics, except for special cases, and my > recall is pretty ordinary, meaning for anything I don't regularly use, I need a > reference guide with me all the time that I can look up in reasonable time. > > Pascal fares much better, much of it having been in long term memory at some > stage. Refreshing/relearning is much quicker than something totally new, > because my recognition, which is well above average, can assist greatly. > > > .... Cattle without legs: ground beef. > --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49 > ¨ Synchronet ¨ Freeway BBS in Bendigo, Australia. > Cooleo. Well atleast it is a useful language, Pascal that is and you can get stuff done in it. Infact a language, Nim, had its compiler written in Pascal and it is a new language so yeah. One up man! --- ­ Synchronet ­ KK4QBN + (706)-422-9538 + kk4qbn.synchro.net + 24/7/365 .