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Pascal is actually good and perfomant. It was the second language I picked up in high school after Basic. I don’t understand why as an industry we had to regre

by didip 3y ago

Pascal is actually good and perfomant. It was the second language I picked up in high school after Basic. I don’t understand why as an industry we had to regress to Python, Ruby, Java, & Javascript in late 90s & early 2000.

dansalvato 3y ago
I saw a talk that touched on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tml94je2edk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tml94je2edk He explains that dynamically-typed languages like Python, Ruby, and JS became popular in the 90s because they offered a fast feedback loop for website building, and they didn't need an IDE or compilers, which were slow (and often not free). It ended up not being worth trading your development time for the performance increase when all your users were connecting via 56k modem anyway. The talk makes a lot of other cool points about how development has changed in the past decade or two, and why the trend is moving back to static typing.
- oaiey 3y ago
  Do not forget Pearl.
  - fuzztester 3y ago
    Yes, it is a gem of a language. Now, I wonder who its mother is?
    - musicale 3y ago
      > gem of a language PP already mentioned Ruby.
  - unixhero 3y ago
    Perl or Rakudo?
musicale 3y ago
> I don’t understand why as an industry we had to regress to Python, Ruby, Java, & Javascript in late 90s & early 2000 Computers got faster and added more memory, so they had to come up with a use for it. ;-) Also the web browser became a popular programming platform and mainly used JavaScript. They're still trying to cram a full OS into web browsers in addition to the browser part. Chrome is getting close.