At 07:06 PM 8/4/2002, Keith wrote:
At 09:03 PM 7/25/2002, James wrote:
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From: "Stephen C. Daukas" <stephen@daukas.com>
The question is, why Pascal?
No, that was not the question. Since he asked about Pascal, I will refrain from raving on about how he should learn Algol68 and Haskell and numerical analysis and Russian (though of course he should).
I didn't realize you were the self-appointed question cop! Regarding the rest of your comment, you should have refrained - you missed my point.
Delphi does C++ too... In any event, the book for Pascal is by Nicholas Wirth (the creator of the language). It is a small black covered book that looks more like a journal than a text. If memory serves, it is called something like "Data Structures and Algorithms using Pascal." I taught from this book some 18 years ago at BU... I liken it to K&R on C and C++ - dense, but very useful.
You may be conflating:
No - I know the book of which I speak and you can learn the language from it. But, your original point is moot because he has since made it clear he needs a book on Borland's version of Pascal, which isn't Pascal proper.
I don't think K&R ever wrote anything about C++, that is Stroustrup's baby (or bastard).
Correct.