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

[Mark Emerson]

On Friday 16 October 2009 06:04:17 am Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote:
> > Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com> wrote:
> >> I don't agree with the idea that "BEGIN...END" determines the failure
> >> of Pascal, as syntax completion is for that. Both "BEGIN...END" and
> >> "{...}" are finished in the same time if they were done by computer.
> >> On the contrary, it is part of the way of Pascal being elegant.
> >
> > Its very amusing to me when I meet people who are also developers and
> > tell them I use object pascal and they look at me like I just told them I
> > was using punch cards.
> >
> > I just tell them...
> >
> > ObjectPascal:  Strong like C, Easy like VB.
> >
> > --
> > Warm Regards,
> >
> > Lee
>
> That blank look in the eyes of the C crowd is so strange. Lots and lots
> of people shy away from C/C++/etc since it is so obviously bad, but they
> don't know about Pascal so they go to slow scripting languages. They
> sure are happpier there than with C, but Pascal would be so much better
> in many cases.
>
> I usually don't say that I use Pascal, I say that I use FPC. Then they
> don't understandand what that is and think they missed something. And
> they sure have.
>
> FPC: Faster to compiler, faster to run, faster to write, faster to
> debug... We should print T-shirts with messages like that.
>
>
> /Ingemar

But you guys all seem to be forgetting what I wrote near the beginning of this 
thread, Pascal is merely a TEACHING language, which is why we have C.  :)

Most people aren't interested in truth (e.g. that Pascal is a vastly superior 
language in almost every respect). They are instead interested in what is 
popular, politically correct, and has been artfully propagandized into their 
gullible, small minds from a source they believe to be an "authority" (e.g. 
REAL programmers don't use Pascal).

All truth passes through three stages. 
First, it is ridiculed, 
second it is violently opposed, and 
third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Getting small-minded people to wake up on almost any topic, from programming 
languages to global politics, is the stuff of revolution.  And that is the 
BEGINing and the END.

Mark Emerson