On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:25, James Knott wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 09/11/06 06:59, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2006-11-09 at 06:55 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Try to buy anyone's Pascal. It appears to be a dead language these days.
There is a gnu version of pascal, and there is also "Free Pascal" ( http://www.freepascal.org/). Then, there is also Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/), that emulates Delphi.
When I code something, I do it in Pascal.
I thought real programmers write code at the command line: in DOStalk, copy con filename.exe
No, real programmers write directly to punch cards, using only their pen knife. ;-)
No, no, no. Real programmers use a bent paper clip to punch holes in paper tape. But they only do that when they're too lazy to flip the switches by hand on their Altairs.