[fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal

Wed Apr 16 02:45:39 CEST 2008

Hello, Joost,

On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 12:48:46 PM you wrote:

JvdS> Those people are getting older and older, we just need a younger
JvdS> audience. ;)

It's sad you mentioned it.

I started using Pascal in University because of ACM-ICPC (while I
studied C++ in the school). I participated only once and my team got
the 7th place in my region, we didn't get to the next stage
(they selected 7 teams, but with a non-trivial algorithm; probably
none of us participated next years because of this), but
nowadays the most notable result for me is that I like Pascal.

This particular way is impassable for youth nowadays:
http://icpc.baylor.edu/systems/finals/ --- C/C++ and Java (both under
Eclipse of course, because it's IBM).

There was (Free)Pascal some time ago. It was dropped from 2006, if I
get it right (and in 2005 it had limited status).