Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981) [pdf]

Re:Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)... by Jemm on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:08AM (#22223784)

I miss pascal. It was a language that was easy to read, unlike C.

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Re:Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)... by unnouinceput on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:17AM (#22223864)

And who's stopping you to write things in Pascal these days? Lazarus + Free Pascal has plenty of platforms as target. Heck you can run Lazarus on Raspberry Pi and create stuff for Rasbian right there on your RPi device.

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Re:Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)... by gmfawcett on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:15PM (#22226262)

There's also Ada, which is not the same language but which was heavily influenced by Pascal.

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Re:Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)... by mikewarot on Monday February 03, 2020 @11:02PM (#22232260)

I did too... but plowed forward with a project in Python... until it stalled.... took about 20 hours and re-implemented it in Lazarus/Free pascal, and haven't looked back since.

It's not quite as solid as Delphi was, but then again I don't have $5k to dump on a compiler right now.

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Re:Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)... by albanread on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:19PM (#22239795)

I miss it too; Pascal (Delphi) used to be one of my favourite compilers; until Dennis in tech support refused to reset my version 10.2 license registration limit the other day.. Time to move on I guess.

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Re:Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)... by cure on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:42AM (#22224025)

I started on Pascal too. These days I like Go, in big part for its readability.

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