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On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:51:21 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Sorry, not quite. The article was entitled “Real Programmers Don’t Use
> Pascal”, and it was a sendup of a book that was doing the rounds at the
> time, called “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche”.
> 
> Obviously because Pascal was considered the programming-language
> equivalent of quiche.

Pascal was good for my bottom line. The University of Maine used it for a 
didactic language and Sprague Electric's tantalum capacitor operation in 
Sanford ME preferred to hire UM engineers. Whatever its didactic benefits 
Pascal wasn't great at process control.  I'm having a senior moment over 
the correct Pascal terminology but I developed ddl's that could talk to 
real world machinery and instrumentation.