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I guess it's a regional thing then. In my corner of the world, Pascal was already dying commercially in 1992, Delphi gave it a final breath of life, but not eno
by beagle3 8y ago
I guess it's a regional thing then. In my corner of the world, Pascal was already dying commercially in 1992, Delphi gave it a final breath of life, but not enough to save it.
Windows was starting to get adopted, Unix was not yet a thing in the homes (but enthusiasts DID start Linuxing by 1994-1995), Assembly was getting irrelevant except for demos, games, and the occasional tight loop, 16-bit was seriously dying -- everything new was 32-bit with dos extenders, Watcom was the best compiler ever, and DJGPP was common -- C and the shiny-new-but-not-yet-convoluted-C++ were kings.
And there was essentially no viable Pascal for PCs other than Turbo Pascal -> Borland Pascal -> Delphi, so it doesn't really matter what the standard said.