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I've always suspected that Pascal and Haskell were not serious programming languages, thank you for confirming my suspicion.

• mgaunard 3y ago
  Notice how I said most; also I would argue that yes, those aren't really serious programming languages. Haskell is an academic experiment and is mostly esoteric in the industry. It has however impacted a number of other languages that do get some use. Pascal is way past its prime and no major company is giving it significant support anymore.
• lelanthran 3y ago
  > I've always suspected that Pascal and Haskell were not serious programming languages, thank you for confirming my suspicion. I wouldn't really group Pascal and Haskell together (unless we're playing rhyming games). One of those had serious market penetration, a whole industry behind it and was one of the dominant choices for applications languages ... for maybe two full decades (including Turbo Pascal all the way through to Delphi). I mean, right now, Delphi is still orders of magnitudes more popular and in use than Haskell, which is used by .... pandoc, maybe?