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

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 11:02 schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
> > Remember, Pascal is merely a TEACHING language, unsuitable for commercial
> > software development, which is why we have C.  :)
>
> And why should that be the case? What are the outstanding feature of C
> that make it so supperiour? It's illogical and hard to maintain syntax?
> Or is it just that it was available for free on all unix systems?

Yes, it is available everywhere.
And it is easier to copy unix code then.

Remember that it is still not easy to come to freepascal.
You have to configure a debian testing system and apt-get lazarus and so on...
Nearly nowhere the lazarus package is preinstalled.