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At least in the ex-soviet countries, a lot of the legally-questionable software we used to write was in Pascal because that's what we learnt in school. It was a
by optymizer 4y ago
At least in the ex-soviet countries, a lot of the legally-questionable software we used to write was in Pascal because that's what we learnt in school. It was an easy transition to go to Delphi - nice RAD IDE for GUI RATs or keygens/cracks, familiar OO language.
- jollyllama 4y agoMakes sense. Thanks.
- jhbadger 4y agoEven in the West, Pascal was the standard teaching language even in the late 1980s -- my undergraduate classes and textbooks all used it.
- aidenn0 4y agoI took the AP CS test in 1996 and had to learn Pascal for it. They switched to a different language either in '97 or '98 though (C++ I think?).
- jollyllama 4y agoI think so. By the late 2000's, it was Java.