Anyone seen Pascal, BASIC, or Z80s in the wild recently?

Pascal:

https://www.freepascal.org/

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

https://shop.mikroe.com/compilers?programming-language*=pasc...

Basic:

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/universal-windows-platform/

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

https://shop.mikroe.com/compilers?programming-language*=basi...

Z80:

Any Assembly will do, pick ARM, RISC-V, AVR, PIC, ....

Good. What other languages are still being used that teach these concepts?

D, Go, Ada, Rust, C#, Swift, Common Lisp, Eiffel, C++

C# doesn't really. C++ definitely does. The others I don't know.

Sure it does.

- compiles to native code via ngen, mono, .NET Native, MDIL, IL2CPP

- has pointers in unsafe code

- has value types

- structs allow for layout control

- value types can be stack allocated, it also allows for alloca in unsafe code

- memory can be allocated outside GC via safe handles or marshaling services

- latest versions have support for zero allocation memory references

The only thing it doesn't do properly is to have global statics, but it can be worked around via a singleton.

I wouldn't recommend using C# for learning these concepts. Unsafe mode exists but it's not very straightforward in my view. I don't think I could understand unsafe mode without prior knowledge of C.

It is all a matter of who teaches it and how.