You're right, B. Still, I wonder why his college or his university offers a course about Pascal if no one will hire Pascal programmers anymore. Since I've quit programming professionally, I decide what languages I'll program in. So I don't care what language is most popular in the industry. The day I emailed Doug Cooper, a coauthor of my favorite Pascal book Oh! Pascal , I suggested he write a book about Ada 95. "There's no demand for it," he replied. Hmm, that's strange. I thought Boeing's programmers wrote their autopilot software in that language. What do I know? I'm a dinosaur with a 12-year-old SPARCstation under my bed. 🙂 Ooh, I miss the old guy, too. Seriously, I do.
Are you still having to turn in your top-down designs with your assignments or is that part done? I think that is another big reason. The old fashioned book spends a while on program structure and pre-programming activities that will serve you well in any language.
For me, programming languages are easy to learn. But I thought learning Pascal was much easier than learning C. Pascal includes some useful features that C doesn't have, sets, for example.
I'll bet you already can do that with the TextEdit program that comes with Snow Leopard. I keep that editor's icon in my dock because I like to use an ordinary text editor when I type programs. If you use TextEdit, remember to make it save your document as plain ASCII text. I used to write programs at home, email them to myself, and compile them at school. You might even run the Emacs text editor, too. I like it a lot, but it's hardly the user-friendliest program I've ever used.
I wonder what program the computer runs when it expects the "-T" directive: the linker or the Pascal compiler. Snow Leopard's linker doesn't take a "-T" directive, or if it does the linker's, ld's, manual page doesn't mention it. I'd check the Pascal compiler's manual page for a "-T" directive. If I found one there, I'd recompile the program on a command-line, where I'd put the "-T" between the compiler's name and your program's name. So if the compiler's name is "pascal", and my program's name were "homework.pas", I'd type "pascal -T homework.pas" and press the "return" key.
How many letters are between the quotation marks in "A A A?" One and three. There are three instances of only one letter, the letter "A." Or as Charles Saundes Pierce might say, there are three tokens of the "A" type. Pierce was a philosopher who named his philosophy "Pragmaticism." He wasn't a programmer.
If you do create a symlink, Scott, be careful. You might accidentally create a circular one, a link that points to itself. After I did that, my poor Sun workstation got stuck in an infinite loop.
Sometimes supposedly user-friendly programs aren't so user-friendly after all. The command-line can make life easier than some fancy GUIs do.