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[quote name="Dangerous Dave"][quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"][quote]Yeah, but we can't keep introducing students to programming via Pascal. It has zero real-world applications.[/quote] You really think so? C and C++ have dreadful string processing routines. I don't know Java or C# well enough to comment but I'm not sure if they do provide as good a set of string processing routines as Pascal does, and I'll bet that if they do, the reason they do is they moved to Pascal-style strings (length is a prefix at the start of the string as opposed to a string being a block of characters ending in a zero byte). I'll spot you any odds that a Pascal application to manage text - especially, say, text searching and text manipulation such as done by word processors and text processors and formatters - will do the job with less trouble, be easier to maintain, and can be written, debugged, tested and implemented faster than one written in C or its derivatives.[/quote] Sorry mate, I meant you can't get a job doing Pascal, is all. :) [/quote]