On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:31 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > If we had the processing power (and all the incredibly cheap HW that > exists today), in the 80's, I wouldn't have had to write such > efficient assembly language code... Much easier today, with cheap RAM, > etc. C++ for an old timer, takes awhile to get an understanding of, > because of the OO, but as a book I have says, before OO, approximately > 50% of the projects ended in failure. I believe that is on the low > side. Never used Pascal (wasn't that a teaching language?, but I did > use PL/M-86. OO is fine. Today, at least, there are much better implementations of in java, python, etc. C++ is just tortuous. The pascal p-code implementation was, IIRC, implemented by UCSD. Pascal was then popularized by Borland. Ahh for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades involved fork lifts. Dave