Pascal or Basic are not languages that are popular in industry. I doubt they are used at all.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark E. Zawadzki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:45 AM Subject: [jdjlist] RE: what is it like to be a programmer "in the real wor ld" ? > You can get free, legal copies of old Borland products (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C) from the Borland > Museum > http://community.borland.com/museum/ > > Try pascal. There are a lot of first programming books in Pascal that you will find in used book > stores (*cheeeap*) and public libraries. IMHO, its better than Basic, as Basic can lure you into > all kinds of bad habits. > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > No it's not a joke Tim... It's a very common first program for beginers > > that could apply to any language... Maybe you should start with BASIC. If > > you have an old copy of Microsoft's DOS start Qbasic from the command line > > and start hacking away. Failing that get an old copy of Visual Basic if you > > can such as Ver 3.0 or 4.0... That's the way I started out... With QBasic, > > then VB, then C, then C++ and so on to where I am today with Java. > > > > Java is fairly easy but you need a sound basis in object oriented > > programming and the syntax is kind of cryptic... BASIC is more procedural > > in nature and the syntax is easier for beginners... That's why it's called > > Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. > > > > Greg. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > > ===== > > Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Democracies die behind closed doors," - Judge Damon Keith > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > ______________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm ______________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
