> Perhaps you are asking me why I individually value Pascal as a language... Yes, that's what I was asking. Or rather: > Some people love NixOS and can't do w

> Perhaps you are asking me why I individually value Pascal as a language... Yes, that's what I was asking. Or rather: > Some people love NixOS and can't do without it ... and then they'll usually have specific reasons why they can't do without it. I didn't mean it as "why should I use Pascal now when there are so many better languages out there," on the contrary. If you're gonna dabble in a niche language, it might as well be a historically significant one. I'm not quite convinced AI will supplant programming languages, though. Search engines, perhaps. And it'll become part of image processing and artsy tools.