[fpc-pascal] Re: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 28 10:05:11 CET 2012


Am 28.02.2012 08:22, schrieb Noah Silva:
> Well ObjectPascal has been around since the early 90s at least, and from
> an end-user point of view, pascal became primarily Object Oriented with
> TurboVision and later Delphi in the mid 90s - so anyone who doesn't know
> about that is severely misinformed.  I am not sure that changing the
> name will make up for that.
>

To stress this a bit: around two weeks ago I told my "program 
optimization" teacher (who's the head of the "programing languages" 
chair) about Free Pascal (and Delphi) and he didn't know that Pascal 
"already" supports OOP... :(

Regards,
Sven



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