It's interesting. In an alternate universe Pascal becomes the system programming language of choice. It nearly happened in this universe in the 1980s. The orig

It's interesting. In an alternate universe Pascal becomes the system programming language of choice. It nearly happened in this universe in the 1980s. The original Apple Lisa and Macintosh software was largely written in Pascal[1] and all the original developer APIs were in Pascal. Pascal was a first-class language on Vax/VMS, and it's easy to imagine a world where Ada (which is a Pascal-family language) became popular instead of C++. My first job was in Delphi, and I still am fond of the language. But it really is mostly dead for new applications now. It's interesting to see the influence that Object Pascal in Delphi had on C# and now on Typescript - Anders Hejlsberg is responsible for all three. [1] https://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=519 https://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=519