> HI,
>
> Computer Science majors used Pascal for about 2 year
> then began to use C when I was a student - more than 20 years ago.
>
> I heard that CS majors use C++ as their first language these days.
>

>

>
> One case (math, not CS but still should give you some idea). We
> used Turbo Pascal in introductory programming course (compulsory
> for all math students). However, around 1994 we had some 32-bit
> machines with 1-4 Mb of RAM. On such machine it felt really
> clumsy to live with 16-bit limitations imposed by DOS and Turbo
> Pascal. So we investigated possible upgrade paths. One
> possibility considered was Delphi. But the message about Delhi
> was somwhat unclear for us -- we did not know how compatible it
> was with real Pascal (now we know it is compatible enough). The
> only sure thing about Delphi we knew was that Delphi requires
> Windows, and that was big minus. Also, in-compatibility of various
> Pascals was a problem -- we wanted to...

> Fact is, young people are not as
> successful today as they were many years ago. Kids are smarter and
> try harder, but they are failing to learn programming.