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Java had a massive push by Sun. If you have a old java codebase, it is easy to "wrap" around a big proxy and continue to expand it in Java, without learning a n

Java had a massive push by Sun. If you have a old java codebase, it is easy to "wrap" around a big proxy and continue to expand it in Java, without learning a new language. Language library is quite well optimized. I like Pascal but its scope rules are Crazy compared to C/Java/C#, nerveless Pascal compiler is reported faster than Java one

Jtsummers 6y ago
> I like Pascal but its scope rules are Crazy compared to C/Java/C#, nerveless Pascal compiler is reported faster than Java one Admittedly a long time since I used Pascal proper, but my recollection (and a quick search seems to confirm) that its scope rules are "simply" lexical scoping. Variables are visible only within the area they are declared and not outside, and variables can shadow variables from a higher level. So a global variable can become shadowed by a procedure variable. That's pretty much the same as the other languages use.