Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal in 2023?

Re:Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal in 2023? by foobiekr on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:49AM (#34946968)

I have a coworker who, when he got out of school in the 90s, got hired to write COBOL. There's a ton of COBOL out there, and why not? As much as "waterfall" is a fiction, high-spec, super-detailed-spec projects actually do have some advantages as they are usually well thought out. That is where COBOL played, and why those apps have run since the 70s.

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Re:Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal in 2023? by Aloha on Sunday February 26, 2023 @03:48PM (#34949239)

Sometimes the entire specification really does exist before you start. Certain kinds of software applications have not had substantive new functionality in decades, so everyone knows what a complete implementation of it looks like.

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Re:Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal in 2023? by foobiekr on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:53AM (#34979507)

Alternately, they change slowly, and they have to be right.

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