[Year 12 Its] Re: Naming Conventions

[Bricks J. Winzer]

> Java was nowhere near the first to try this seriously.

> The UCSD Pascal system did essentially everything that Java later 
> purported to do, but back in 1979: portable language, platform neutral 
> runtime, threaded bytecode optimised interpreter etc.

Naturally.

When UNIX, or should I say UNICS, and its predecessor, MULTICS, were
being developed in the late 1960s, there was a need to develop a high
level programming language to build it with.  Pascal was used to write
a language called B.  This then evolved into a new version: C.

During the 1990s, C was used to create the Java langauge.  Java draws
very heavily on its parent, and it's natural it still does much what
its parent did. :)

As a teacher, I know that I'd rather teach students Pascal than C or
Java.  Is Delphi popular?  I'm personally a VB "enthusiast" but accept
that it has a lot of shortcomings.

BRICKS