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Pascal gives me flashbacks to the 90s in Germany every Prof was into it.
by theCrowing 4y ago
Pascal gives me flashbacks to the 90s in Germany every Prof was into it.
- WaitWaitWha 4y agoI think Pascal's sun set because Borland killed it with Delphi. In my opinion, Borland was the 300lbs gorilla in the Pascal compiler arena, so when Borland decided to move push Delphi over Pascal, there was no interest in filling the Pascal hole. btw I wrote commercial products on Pascal that I thought was neat. A chat program that used IPX/SPX, a a fax server using DesqView, and MS Mail queues both inbound and outbound, reverse delta databases that stored all changes at field level, overcame the 640K memory barrier by using a TSR that swapped the data in/out on demand, and a proto-PXE server using my insanely fast copy program over IPX. That was the good old times.
- FpUser 4y agoI still use Delphi for my Windows desktop product and Lazarus for Linux desktop software
- justsomehnguy 4y agoI have a very fond memories of Delphi, but if I need something custom nowadays (think utils, not something SAP-like) I just write it in PowerShell.
- fm2606 4y agoPascal was the introductory computer language at my college in 1988. I don't remember much of it.
- alwillis 4y ago> Pascal was the introductory computer language at my college in 1988. I don't remember much of it. I took Pascal as a college freshman in 1982. And even though I haven't programmed in it seriously since then, it stuck with me. It didn't hurt that it was a minimal language designed for teaching computer science. For example, when I learned Pascal, there was no string type; you had to create an array of characters. I was checking out the Free Pascal website recently; although the language has been greatly expanded, Free Pascal source code still made sense to me.