[fpc-other]reputation of Pascal

[Noah Silva]

I already wrote a reply to "why pascal is not my favorite language",
which seems to get quite a few hits, despite the fact that I havn't
advertized it.

Put it this way.. pascal wasn't used very much when it was in the RFC
stage.  Borland's pascal came along and became the standard.  All of the
other newer pascals are more or less compliant.   (in fact, delphi/kylix
is the least compliant when you look at stuff like CRT unit support).

so if I can compile the same program under FPK, Turbo7, PurePascal,
VirtualPascal, and Delphi.. it's pretty standard to me.  Turbo lacks
some older things, and Delphi lacks some newer things.  The things
delphi lacks have already been added by various programmers, and the
things turbo and pure lack, I have written a lot of compatability
libraries to address. (although I can't magically add compiler keywords,
etc.!)

 -- noah

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 06:27, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
> Okay, then let's start a real discussion here...
> 
> The programming language Pascal unfortunately has a really bad
> reputation amongst programmers and in the hacker scene. They call
> Pascal a "bondage-and-discipline language". There's even 
> yet a fixed proverb out: "real programmers don't use Pascal".
> 
> For the arguments read the article about Pascal from "The New Hackers
> Dictionary" (aka "jargon file") and the related articles:
> 
> http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/Pascal.html
> 
> Okay, the paper, they refer to is from 1981 and lots of the limitations
> of standard Pascal don't relate to FPC. But then they can say, it's not
> a common standard, so your Pascal is not Pascal, it's proprietary, it's 
> not portable.
> 
> So, what do you think, how can we argue against them?
> What about publishing our own paper?
> What else could we do for the reputation of Pascal?
> 
> -- 
> Tschuess
> 	Andreas
> 
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