hehe search on google for 'cobol' and Dijkstra....
Actually, Pascal is a pretty cool language these days. When I started learning to program we learnt FORTRAN and USCD Pascal. Pascal at that time had no standard input or standard output, you had to do all IO on Punched cards, paper tape and mag tape. This was quite hard to work with.
You'd feed the macchine a stqack of cards, and eventually pick up a paper tape from Ops. You'd take this and feed it through a Teletype Terminal which would print it in 7 bit ascii on 128 column fan fold paper.
In the '80's Borland relaesed Turbo Pascal, which could be used for real programms. Eventually Borland Pascal forked into 2 trees, Borland Pascal and Object Pascal. Object Pascal became Delphi.
Interestingly, the Borland C++ compiler is written in Borland Pascal, and it's the fastet C++ compiler I've seen.
Thus endeth the lesson for today.
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