Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / sof...
by benibela on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:26PM
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I still write all my projects in Pascal
Memory safety has become a modern buzzword, but Pascal had memory safe strings and arrays decades ago, based on automated reference counting. Now it also has other types that are not memory safe, but you do not have to use them. Everything would be much safer if all the C code was replaced by Pascal code. And Pascal is compiled to native code without GC, so it is also very fast
And XPath. It is the best language to map and filter data. It felt out of favor with XML, but it can be used on all data, HTML, CSV, JSON, Plaintext, ...
Memory safety has become a modern buzzword, but Pascal had memory safe strings and arrays decades ago, based on automated reference counting. Now it also has other types that are not memory safe, but you do not have to use them. Everything would be much safer if all the C code was replaced by Pascal code. And Pascal is compiled to native code without GC, so it is also very fast
And XPath. It is the best language to map and filter data. It felt out of favor with XML, but it can be used on all data, HTML, CSV, JSON, Plaintext, ...