[fpc-pascal] Adding Javascript to Pascal

[Karoly Balogh]

Hi,

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025, DougC via fpc-pascal wrote:

> Why not? Because it helps a distinctly inferior language design to
> perpetuate.
>
> It used to be said that any programmer that first learned to program
> using BASIC was ruined for life. I would say the same thing about
> Javascript. 

We're in the offtopic again, but I really hate this kind of elitism. As a
kid I started with BASIC - on various Commodore home computers then also
on early IBM PCs - and I hope to think I grew up to be a semi-decent
programmer. At least I can fix your Pascal compiler for ya...

In fact, in I think nowadays one of the big problems is, we do not really
have anything similar to BASIC to teach really young kids. Python, which
they usually try to use for this purpose is way too strict in its syntax,
and complicated. Just like most modern languages (Pascal/Delphi included).

Not to mention, Pascal - originally conceived as a teaching language! -
had its own share of abuse from this kind of elitist thinking, it's enough
to think about that infamous "Real Programmers don't use Pascal"
letter/post from the early eighties.

So, yeah. I do not like Javascript, to put it mildly. But also, lets be
real for a moment - it's here to stay. So nothing wrong can come out to
gain at least some understanding and knowledge of it.

Charlie