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Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)

• Jtsummers 1y ago
  I thought there were more discussions on this one, but I think it just came up in comments and that's what I'm remembering. Ones I found with more than a couple comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3585286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3585286 - Feb 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9422622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9422622 - Apr 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10214480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10214480 - Sep 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504023 - Mar 2019
• GianFabien 1y ago
  ... and they still don't! Ok, so FORTRAN got replaced by C/C++ and OS/370 by a hundred variants of Unix. For those who tuned in late, Linux is a clone of Unix (TM).
  • citbl 1y ago
    There is a whole generation of delphi programmers out there...