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I'd love to know what Pascal's still used for.
by tome 11y ago
I'd love to know what Pascal's still used for.
- rasz_pl 11y agoAltium Designer, industry standard when it comes to designing electronics (pcb, schematic capture, solidworks integration for enclosure design).
- Confusion 11y agoIndustrial systems that have been in production for a long time. E.g. part of the systems that control the Dutch railways.
- coldtea 11y agoTons of people still use Borlands tools and there are lots of legacy enterprise apps maintained in them. In Windows there are also several high profile apps written with Pascal. One such I remember reading about recently is Fruity Loops, one of the most popular (though entry level) DAWs. In the TIOBE rankings (not definitive, but indicative), Pascal has 2 entries in the top 20, as Delphi/Object Pascal and plain Pascal -- far ahead languages from all CLs combined, to Clojure, Scheme, Lua, Groovy, Erlang, etc.