[fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Fri Oct 16 18:58:01 CEST 2009


> You can post an ad for a C 
> programmer and get 1,000 applicants, if you post an ad for a Pascal 
> programmer you might get 5, at least where I live.  

Yes, that maybe true. But how has all this started? As far as I know, C 
was not that popular in past (at least not on Windows). Instead (Turbo) 
Pascal was a widely used language. Suddenly this turned. May have come 
from Linux, where C was standard. I don't know.





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