Hello Ken,

> You are (by observation) an exception to the *young* programmers I

mentioned

> as being *trapped* in their current programming language environment. The
> point I am trying to make (hopefully positive), is that just because *I*

am

> a Pascal programmer I cannot learn or use code written in C++ (for

example)

> is a *cop out* (hopefully that term is internationally understood?).

Actually, I am pretty trapped in doing Delphi, but I like it a lot.

I dislike C(++) what several reasons but I do have a little
experience with it.

I've done Java for some time - nice, but I was glad whenever
I could do Delphi :-)


That being said, it is very true that you can learn language XX
if you know language YY as long as the idea behind it is pretty
much the same (eg: object orientation).

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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