>German version of Pascal! That must be a real nightmare for any serious programmer, having to type commands in German. At least, I wouldn't like it.

Oh, it was funny. The first language I ever saw but BASIC. This is ages ago. We must have had an emperor.

>What the universities should REALLY be working at is to promote an international language, to be taught (at least, as a second language) in all schools. But it seems that this is precisely what the language divisions are not interested in. Might affect the future of their jobs.

I left this course after the basics (by value <g>). Autodidact .
University now teaches C* which is designed to be a bad example of a language.

I prefer rich languages (is this "Hochsprache"?) like the Fox.

IMHO a programmer grows up on programming.

University should teach thinking

I have to understand customer's problem no matter if I programm C VB VFP COBOL and so one. There is the difference between good and bad programmer.

Programm language is like a pen to me.

A very good programmer is jack-in-all-trades with a good pen.

Agnes