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Second Pascal -thing I've seen on front HN this week. Is it nostalgia or is it because it's useful and cool stuff even in 2024? I'm nostalgic about Pascal beca
by finnjohnsen2 3y ago
Second Pascal -thing I've seen on front HN this week. Is it nostalgia or is it because it's useful and cool stuff even in 2024?
I'm nostalgic about Pascal because it was my first real professional full-time payed programming language and I loved it passionately for years. But now, I kinda don't trust myself when I just see old dated stuff compared to what we use now. It is the past for me, but maybe it's not the case for people without my baggage
- mikestew 3y agoIs it nostalgia or is it because it's useful and cool stuff even in 2024? Or maybe because Wirth died recently? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473042 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473042 (Why NYT is just getting around to an obit, I do not know.)
- andsoitis 3y ago> because it's useful and cool stuff even in 2024? Yes, absolutely!
- livrem 3y agoI have looked for a long time for some stable, cross-platform, environment to use for my future hobby projects, and Free Pascal might be the best candidate I have seen. They officially support a large number of platforms from 16-bit to 64-bit systems and APIs seem to change slowly and still maintain compatibility to some (many?) 1980's libraries. I am a bit fed up with unstable APIs. That probably does not make Free Pascal "cool" but it is definitely something I see as a big plus, when some other programming languages roll out breaking changes every 6 months or so.