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wtd

Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:30 am


Why Pascal?

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I've been musing a lot recently on the topic of CS education.  Just today I was wondering what reasons a person could possibly come up with that would justify teaching Pascal in the current computing environment.

So I had to think about weaknesses in the languages that would be its competitors.  Weaknesses that Pascal does not share.  Of course these are weaknesses from an educational perspective.

Let's look at Hello world in C++.

#include 

int main()
{
   std::cout