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"Pascal is a "hidden" gem in the area of languages" I agree. Programmers won't look at it because they perceive it to be old and out-of-date. But the language
by open-source-ux 9y ago
"Pascal is a "hidden" gem in the area of languages"
I agree. Programmers won't look at it because they perceive it to be old and out-of-date. But the language hasn't stood still. It's a fast, low-memory language. FreePascal with the Lazarus IDE is one of the best cross-platform development toolkits for building native desktop apps.
Sadly a lot of programmers can never see beyond the verbose (but readable) syntax.
- Kamgunz 9y agoMaybe somebody needs to create a more palatable language, that'll transpile (I know, I know, compile) into pascal?
- mamcx 9y agoThis guys made a pascal-like language: http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/oxygene/ http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/oxygene/ Exist various dialects of pascal (Modula, Oberon, etc) so is not something so far in the wind. But if you lose too much of the syntax you remove part of the charm.
- fasquoika 9y agoPalatable how? Pascal's syntax is not especially different from that of most scripting languages
- andrewflnr 9y agoEvery time I look at the syntax, it feels really verbose. IIRC some dialects require all caps or initial caps on keywords; at any rate that's how most examples are shown, and it's rather off-putting. Superficial, I know, but I'm probably not the only one.
- fasquoika 9y agoI don't know about other implementations but FreePascal is completely case insensitive. Identifiers are actually treated the same if the only difference is case. I don't particularly like this, but I've never seen it actually be an issue
- pjmlp 9y agoThat was what I was looking for in Go, but they seem to have other goals in mind. Failing that there is always Ada, .NET Native, Kotlin Native, D,...