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Having started with FORTRAN in 1970, then discovering the beauty of IF-THEN-ELSE in PL/I, then using ALGOL W in college, all made Pascal a natural successor for
by sema4hacker 3y ago
Having started with FORTRAN in 1970, then discovering the beauty of IF-THEN-ELSE in PL/I, then using ALGOL W in college, all made Pascal a natural successor for me out of school (first MacPascal on Macintosh then Delphi on Windows). Still using Delphi 6 for projects to this day.
What was/is particularly nice about Delphi is the library of GUI objects, single .EXE output with no dependencies, and the ease with which arbitrary-length strings can be used.