Historical language survey

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In article <e8kg0a$14hu$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, kris says...
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>Just for fun, how many folks here have hands-on experience with any of 
>the following languages?
>
>Algol
>Pascal
>BCPL
>Ada
>Modula
>Simula

Pascal.  The others are greek to me. :(

I first learned Pascal back in High-School, when I started in earnest on all
this stuff.  I had some BASIC exposure up until then, but structured programming
was beyond me until I was exposed to Pascal.  I didn't stick with it though
(obviously) as I was shown C and x86 ASM by a classmate of mine about around the
same time.  So it was strictly the stuff of class projects and homework.

AFAIK, I don't think they even teach Pascal anymore. The last time I saw Pascal
was in College where my "Intro to programming in C/C++" professor used his old
slides for the course.  Needless to say, a lot of folks who were learning
programming for the first time dropped the course.  

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