When I attended the University of Minnesota in the early 80's, the Computer
Science Department had just adopted Pascal as the way of the future.  All
projects were expected to be done in Pascal.  Fortran was still allowed with
exception to students who learned it prior to the Pascal cutover.

They were so sure of Pascal that Fortran and Cobol were not requirements.
In fact, as I recall the CS deptarment did not even offer Cobol.  It was
offered through the Business/Accounting department.

I chose to take both Fortran and Cobol, for both curiosity sake, and there
were alot of listings in the want ads for both.  Didn't see alot of Pascal
in the want ads.

At the U of M at the particular time, C was one of those Unix things,
although at the end of my schooling there, mid 80's, I believe MS had come
out with a C compiler, as well as Borland.  I believe that U of M actually
offered a class in C by the time I left.  If I am off on the MS/Borland C
dates, anybody feel free to correct.

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:31:00 EST, Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Pascal, once all the rage, is now essentially a dead language. But at the
>height of its popularity, Microsoft did produce and sell an MS-DOS Pascal
>compiler. I just looked on eBay and there's a copy of it there for $5.
>

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