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Pascal isn't dead! Native binaries produced (much less garbage overhead), fast compilation, kick-ass open source IDE and standard library, cross platform, free (as in freedom, as well as beer).

JOIN US.

Wow, I stand corrected. Lazarus is a great name though since it calls out the fact that Pascal was dead ;)

Yes, it was dead. Now though... please try it. You'll be impressed.

That was a great burn. I'm going to reuse it if they get cocky in the future. :)

A month ago I would have agreed with you. But then I surprised myself by choosing the Free Pascal Compiler and the Lazarus IDE for some personal projects that need to be native Windows applications.

These projects have been in my queue for years because I kept chasing the "best" way to create Windows applications. I learned (and forgot) a lot of crap, but never actually made anything. Now I'm making stuff.

Maybe a good call, maybe not. Embarcadero or whatever spelling haha keeps Delphi alive for businesses with old and new code written. Community mostly forked into Free Pascal with lots of libraries, example code, and active compiler development. Component Pascal was a C++ competitor with many companies and people in Europe and Russia using it. Mainly thanks to Blackbox Component Builder which was a Component Pascal app and BSD'd.

So, it doesn't seem quite dead.

Did you miss the FP/Lazarus resurgence recently? The forums are active, they made a nice introductory video, it's cross-platform...since I think we're talking "really dead" here, I doubt it qualifies.

Pascal is not dead. Lots of Windows applications have been written in Delphi (Object Pascal), and these will require maintenance. Or a rewrite in C#.

Still pretty alive

http://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal/

Good call.