Is Pascal dead or just dying?

GOAT50

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Is Pascal dead or just dying?

Is Pascal destined to go to that great compiler repository in the sky? Is
it going to join it's friends like Ada 83, Fortran 77, Eiffel, and
countless other "doomed" programming languages only to be replaced by
C/C++? I sure hope not, but it appears to be so. It's been years since I
saw a job opening for Pascal programmers. Oh well, at least we can be
content in the knowlege that we havn't been wasting our time learning
somthing like BASIC.

Grant Schenk
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Billy E. Pennal, Ph.D

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Is Pascal dead or just dying?

I really agree with you about the demise of Pascal. Just check Borland's
web site and see how much you can find about pascal products.

Bill P.

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> Is Pascal destined to go to that great compiler repository in the sky? Is
> it going to join it's friends like Ada 83, Fortran 77, Eiffel, and
> countless other "doomed" programming languages only to be replaced by
> C/C++? I sure hope not, but it appears to be so. It's been years since I
> saw a job opening for Pascal programmers. Oh well, at least we can be
> content in the knowlege that we havn't been wasting our time learning
> somthing like BASIC.

> Grant Schenk
> --------------------------------------------------
> Do you love Tamagotchi? Then you'll LOVE
> http://pages.prodigy.net/mrgoat!!!

<dski..

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Is Pascal dead or just dying?

Pascal, I doubt, will be coming out with any new advancements, for obvious
reasons. So if you consider that to be a dead language, then yes it is.
However i think it will cotinue to be used as a learning language like it
was originally intended. However it's still a pretty good language aside
from all that.

Pascal dead or dying? Nope, just not growing

GOAT5000 <goat5...@aol.com> wrote in article
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> Is Pascal destined to go to that great compiler repository in the sky? Is
> it going to join it's friends like Ada 83, Fortran 77, Eiffel, and
> countless other "doomed" programming languages only to be replaced by
> C/C++? I sure hope not, but it appears to be so. It's been years since I
> saw a job opening for Pascal programmers. Oh well, at least we can be
> content in the knowlege that we havn't been wasting our time learning
> somthing like BASIC.

> Grant Schenk
> --------------------------------------------------
> Do you love Tamagotchi? Then you'll LOVE
> http://pages.prodigy.net/mrgoat!!!

Frank Heckenba

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Is Pascal dead or just dying?

Quote

> Is Pascal destined to go to that great compiler repository in the sky? Is
> it going to join it's friends like Ada 83, Fortran 77, Eiffel, and
> countless other "doomed" programming languages only to be replaced by
> C/C++? I sure hope not, but it appears to be so. It's been years since I
> saw a job opening for Pascal programmers. Oh well, at least we can be
> content in the knowlege that we havn't been wasting our time learning
> somthing like BASIC.

I think that Borland Pascal is dead, but not Pascal in general. There are
quite a lot of other Pascal compilers to choose from, among them some
free ones. If you're interested, you can find links on my page.
(The free ones have the big advantage that you won't get dependant upon
one company to decide to let the compiler die.)

--
Frank Heckenbach, Erlangen, Germany
fjf@[NOSPAM.REMOVE.THIS]gmx.de
Internet links: http://home.pages.de/~fjf/links.htm
Turbo Pascal programs: http://home.pages.de/~fjf/programs.htm

Frank Heckenba

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Is Pascal dead or just dying?

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> Pascal, I doubt, will be coming out with any new advancements, for obvious
> reasons.

It does. GNU Pascal, e.g. is coming out with new advancements almost
every day. :-)

--
Frank Heckenbach, Erlangen, Germany
fjf@[NOSPAM.REMOVE.THIS]gmx.de
Internet links: http://home.pages.de/~fjf/links.htm
Turbo Pascal programs: http://home.pages.de/~fjf/programs.htm

Stig Norlan

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Is Pascal dead or just dying?

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dski...@erols.com wrote:

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> However i think it will cotinue to be used as a learning language like it
> was originally intended. However it's still a pretty good language aside
> from all that.

Would that include Delphi as well ????.......
And learning language because it was the first language you learned ?

Pascal is very well alive in Delphi, but if we are talking about
ansi-pascal I tend to agree...

Stig

CiMEDI

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Is Pascal dead or just dying?

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Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> > Is Pascal destined to go to that great compiler repository in the sky? Is
> > it going to join it's friends like Ada 83, Fortran 77, Eiffel, and
> > countless other "doomed" programming languages only to be replaced by
> > C/C++? I sure hope not, but it appears to be so. It's been years since I
> > saw a job opening for Pascal programmers. Oh well, at least we can be
> > content in the knowlege that we havn't been wasting our time learning
> > somthing like BASIC.

> I think that Borland Pascal is dead, but not Pascal in general. There are
> quite a lot of other Pascal compilers to choose from, among them some
> free ones. If you're interested, you can find links on my page.
> (The free ones have the big advantage that you won't get dependant upon
> one company to decide to let the compiler die.)

You're right. Actually TMT Pascal is, I think, the best Pascal compiler.
It rules OK. Borland's Pascal is dead many years ago...

CiMEDIA/CiMEDIA iNC.

Sin Pak WIng Danie

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Is Pascal dead or just dying?

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> Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> > I think that Borland Pascal is dead, but not Pascal in general. There are
> > quite a lot of other Pascal compilers to choose from, among them some
> > free ones. If you're interested, you can find links on my page.

Could you please let me know the address of your page? Do you happen to
know
any free implementation of Algol68? Algol68 impressed me more than any
other
languages. But that was back in 1985!

D.S.

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