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I'm currently working on learning JavaScript and Python But My School has a exam about Pascal So If I know JavaScript, Can I learn pascal faster?

What I have tried:

I Can't think of anything. I was learning two programming languages but now I have to learn three programming languages.
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Updated 23-Jun-21 0:48am

If you are competent in any programming language, then learning another is always a lot quicker as you have the "basic skill set" of analysis, design, coding, testing, and debugging built up to the point where they are automatic - it's just the syntax and frameworks that the new language works under that you need to pick up.

But ... Javascript? Python? It's reasonably dodgy calling them programming languages anyway: Pascal is a very different beastie, and unless your JS and Python experience are pretty extensive, they won't help you much at all. Neither of them support pointers for example - which are essential for Pascal work.

I'd suggest you wouldn't pass the exam with that little time to "bone up" on a new and very alien (to your experience) language.
 
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Richard MacCutchan 23-Jun-21 7:19am    
I though Pascal had died long ago; I haven't used it since the 80s.
OriginalGriff 23-Jun-21 8:02am    
It was a good language in it's day, but ...
It's been "extended" over the years, to the point where it is barely recognisable - there is even a .NET version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PascalABC.NET
raddevus 23-Jun-21 8:41am    
You better hope The Delphi people don't read this. They'll hound you to the ends of the earth. 🤓😆 (Psst...Delphi is Pascal)
Richard MacCutchan 23-Jun-21 9:01am    
Isn't there a line from a song somewhere:
"He's dead but he won't lie down" ?
raddevus 23-Jun-21 10:47am    
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I was learning two programming languages
That is generally not a good idea, especially with the two you chose whose syntax is quite different. Now trying to learn Pascal and its syntax will be even more of a challenge. You should only ever focus on learning one at a time.
 
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