"Nobody benchmarks anymore"

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Tue Jun 22 15:25:23 2004

> As a side (and to give the hornet's nest another whack), shouldn't
> good programming discipline be formed using Pascal?

I don't think it matters so much _how_ it's formed as _that_ it's
formed. Whether Pascal is more helpful in forming it than something
else is another question, depending on (at least) what the "something
else" is.

My own opinion, for "something else" values somewhere around the C/C++
range, is that Pascal, or something like it, is helpful for the early
stages but not the later stages of such training: it is helpful for
teaching the rules, the stage when the rules should always be followed,
but it gets in the way for the later stages, the stages when the rules
are already learned and the issue is learning when to break them and
why.

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