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

["Vinzent Höfler"]

"Jürgen Hestermann" <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de>:

> > You can post an ad for a C 
> > programmer and get 1,000 applicants, if you post an ad for a Pascal 
> > programmer you might get 5, at least where I live.

Yes, and guess what: Odds are that there are more than 5 good ones out of the 1000 C-programmers than a single good one out of the 5 Pascal-programmers.

> Yes, that maybe true. But how has all this started? As far as I know, C 
> was not that popular in past (at least not on Windows). Instead (Turbo) 
> Pascal was a widely used language. Suddenly this turned. May have come 
> from Linux, where C was standard. I don't know.

It has never changed. It always has been that way.

Same goes for any programmming language which claims to be better than C. You know what: Being worse than C would be quite an accomplishment.

So the real choice is not: C or Pascal, but C or "any language". Statistically that means half of the people choose C - and the remaining half chooses a language out of thousands of others.


Vinzent.

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