Semi-OT: Why Kids Can't use Computers

[Mauro Souza]

Pascal died when Delphi died with Borland, crushed by Java and .NET.
I had Pascal on  my first semester on college, and never ever touched
Pascal again.
I had a lot of colleages on college that programmed Pascal/Delphi for
living, but their numbers got thinner every year. almost everybody migrated
their skills to Java/.Net or became DBAs or sysadmins.
I worked with VB (and made fun of my Delphy colleages when Borland died),
and migrated to system administration. Is more fun, pays more, and have
more "job security" than programming...
Today C/Java/.NET dominates the desktop and enterprise market, with
PHP/Python/Ruby/Javascript on the webservers, and Pascal is not much
relevant anymore.

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.


2013/8/14 William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 01:01:08AM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> > ... Hence, my choices from the Pascal family. Languages like C, C++, and
> > Python can be taught in Grade 11 or 12 once the basics are out of the
> way.
>
> Off topic... what really happened to Pascal/Modula-X ?
> From my memory, it had pretty fast compile time, and they could've added
> more data structures into the language if needed.
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