Hi,
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025, DougC via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Why not? Because it helps a distinctly inferior language design to
> perpetuate.
>
> It used to be said that any programmer that first learned to program
> using BASIC was ruined for life. I would say the same thing about
> Javascript.
We'r
Den 24.02.2025 09:27, skreiv Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal:
Hi,
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025, DougC via fpc-pascal wrote:
Why not? Because it helps a distinctly inferior language design to
perpetuate.
It used to be said that any programmer that first learned to program
using BASIC was ruined for life.
Karoly Balogh wrote:
> We're in the offtopic again, but I really hate this kind of elitism. As a
> kid I started with BASIC - on various Commodore home computers then also
> on early IBM PCs - and I hope to think I grew up to be a semi-decent
> programmer. At least I can fix your Pascal compiler fo
On 2/21/25 12:04, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal wrote:
[...]
Javascript:
let data = { name: "James", age: 25 };
function update(name) {
data.name = name;
}
function verify(note) {
console.log("received note " + note);
console.log("data name is " + data.name);
hello(data, " messa
On 2025-02-24 11:22, Arne Hanssen via fpc-pascal wrote:
Den 24.02.2025 09:27, skreiv Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal:
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025, DougC via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi,
[...]
As a former OS/2 user I find REXX (Regina Rexx nowadays) very
versatile and useful - and easy to learn. But you're
On 2025-02-24 12:44, Michalis Kamburelis via fpc-pascal wrote:
Karoly Balogh wrote:
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3. Discussions whether language X is good or bad should be an
independent discussion, in an independent thread(s), IMHO. Because
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...and a different mailing list (in particular, fpc-other).
Tomas
