[fpc-pascal] Object pascal a "Modern Language"

[Mark Andrews]

Tony Pelton wrote:

>it is *everything* that Java is, but better.
>
>
>i feel like the hobbyist programmer in me has been reborn AND ... i've
>actually started to look out into the job market a little, with an eye
>towards maybe trying to make a jump from being a Java J2EE web
>application developer to making a jump to doing Pascal development for
>a day job, if the right opportunity came along.
>
Yet another lost soul wanders out of the C-Language (C, C++, C#, Java, 
Python, et. al.)  forrest and into the fertile fields of Object Pascal.

You know, in all my years of using Pascal (starting with Turbo 3.01A in 
1986) and Object Pascal (starting with Turbo 5.5 in 1989), I have heard 
this story on more than one occasion. However, I have never heard a 
story describing the opposite, ie. a person going from Pascal to a 
C-Language and having the same epiphany. I've tried to make the 
transition myself on several occasions, but I always end up coming back 
to Pascal.

Congratulations!

Mark