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Now that is impressive. I had absolutely no idea Pascal was so powerful!

• coldtea 11y ago
  Before C caught on fully in the mid-80s, for lots of commercial "powerful" apps, Pascal was a common choice. And in a lesser degree it continued to be, with Delphi et al, until late nineties, although loosing ground fast. It's as low level as C/C++, can inline assembly easily, and offers the same, or even more, functionality out of the box. And back in the day it had excellent compilers too. Actually, in the eighties, Mac OS used to be written in Pascal. And TeX was written in Pascal too, by Knuth. A more modern example of an app would be Skype (Delphi Pascal).
• nickpsecurity 11y ago
  Was the original development language for Apple's. Portable, too, with P variant ported to 70 architectures or so from 8-bit to mainframes.