A powerful structured programming language like Borland/Turbo Pascal 7 should never be misrepresented as old or outdated. People wrongly compare Pascal with C++. They forget to emphasize that C++ is meant to create other consumer softwares, whereas Pascal is a finished final domestic product to be used for personal computing. If you are an engineer, a mathematics teacher at any level, an accountant, a physicist, a journalist, Pascal is indispensably your personal software.

As a mathematics teacher of Delhi University, — at some other time, if you are interested to listen to me, — I can write in details how exetensively I have been using Borland’s Turbo Pascal 6 and 7 for over a decade. Pascal is purposefully made a high-level language so that it can be actually used as an enduser’s programming language. It is a tightly syntaxed structured language in which subprograms and units are completely sealed from outside and not a pin can enter into their privacy. Hence the subroutines are extremely portable.

One will never find a better platform than Borland’s Turbo Pascal 7 to learn the philosophy of the so-called Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Besides, TP 7’s graphic capabilities are simply amazing. Make programmes to draw graphs of your implicit functions. Make animations. Further, extract sound frequencies to compose your sound signals and music pieces. You can debug your programme, accurately pinpointing the code that is creating the bug. If your programme is rather long, break it into separate include files and unit files. The list of things Borland/Turbo Pascal 7 can do is never-ending.

Pascal should be included in every school syllabus. If the student does not go for software engineering, the Pascal culture will prove very useful in his or her other career.

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