Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/9/25 2:54 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 23:36:12 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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    Maybe the best cross-over was Professor Wirth with Pascal/Modula.
    Alas it was a shorter fence to straddle back then ....

 Before it was adapted for the real world Pascal was known as a language
that excelled at telling itself secrets. I/O was an afterthought. Lisp
needed some improvement before it was useful too.
 Didactic computer languages tend to emphasize concepts over utility. I
spent a winter a long time ago working my way through the Wizard book
which used Scheme. I found the concepts interesting but the back of my
mind kept saying 'Why would you ever do it this way?'

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 For the record, I just LOVE Pascal ... still do
 lots of apps small and large in FPC/Lazarus. May
 proto in Python, but often the goal is to re-do
 it in Pascal.
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 SOME languages are a little TOO much 'ideology'.
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 Wirth managed to balance the equation. Both
 ideology AND very practical.
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 I started using Pascal back with the pink-label
 multi-pass IBM compilers. Never went back. 'C'
 is Just Great - but Pascal is far more easy to
 *understand* and is just 'elegant'.
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 STILL have a VM of DOS with the multi-pass
 Pascal compiler - and DO stuff in it from
 time to time.
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