Hi Eric,

learning Pascal after a home computer Basic dialect sounds
well known to me, I went the same way. Once upon a time ...
It was Turbo Pascal and I also wonder what this boys from
Borland want to do today or tomorrow. Printing money? Later
when I went to my first job in the industrie I thought "Oh yes,
now they want me to code in C" - but what an astonishment -
it was a BASIC job! It cost me some effort to hide my surprise.
As said: Once upon a time.
No, PowerScript is'nt Pascal but a similar language and the
tool PowerBuilder is similar to Delphi: object oriented language,
GUI builder and the "DataWindow" - a very powerfull approach
to access relational databases. Actually Sybase adds web
development capabilities and .NET compatibility. Unfortunately
PowerBuilder is'nt very common in Europe but this is rather
because of lack of marketing than lack of features. A bit more
off topic


Nice day!

Chris