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Pascal = Turbo Pascal if we're taking late 80s/early 90s. Everything else is blasphemy. After that, Pascal = Delphi (for quite a while). The fact that both a

Pascal = Turbo Pascal if we're taking late 80s/early 90s. Everything else is blasphemy. After that, Pascal = Delphi (for quite a while). The fact that both are commercial, closed-source (and, in case of Delphi, quite pricey) packages is pretty much the sole reason Pascal lost out in popularity to languages that mere mortals could use at home without having to resort to piracy. It took Embarcadero over a decade to realize that offering a free "Community Edition" of the IDE is a must to stay relevant. It was too late by then.

PaulHoule 2y ago
Some people in the 1990s thought that open source, particularly the GNU suite, killed off the market for “cheap and cheerful” dev tools, thus we haven’t had a Borland ever since. Today innovation in programming tools tends to come from the hugest companies (Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Facebook) and even successful open source tools such as the LLVM-based compiler suite owe a lot to big funders like Apple. (Possibly Jetbrains is an exception, though my take is their attempts to introduce new languages like Katlin and radical frameworks like MPS haven’t been as impactful as getting the bugs and slowness out of Eclipse)