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I still write almost all my code in Pascal Why am I wasting time on Pascal?
by benibela 6y ago
I still write almost all my code in Pascal
Why am I wasting time on Pascal?
- mysterydip 6y agoIf Pascal does the job, why not?
- butterisgood 6y agoThere are modern iOS games written in Delphi last time I looked around. I've been spending a little time with ActiveOberon, which might look familiar to a Pascal user. It's an interesting language and environment. Reminds me of Smalltalk the way the platform works (or Pharo for a modern Smalltalk environment), except you absolutely can create more "native" binaries for your environment with it. ActiveOberon might be one of the first places async/.await style concurrency was implemented. It definitely predates Rust by a bit. The Fox compiler is an interesting beast too! They're still working on the language. The tip of their SVN tree has enhancements over the language report that was published in 2019 http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2 http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2 Now there's ternary conditionals, functors (per C++, not Category Theory) etc. Last update to the repo was 11 days ago. It's very much alive it seems :-)
- jes5199 6y agoPascal was my first language, and I really miss some things about it that didn’t make it into the popular modern languages