Pascal falls into an unfortunate niche: - It's nowhere near new and trendy enough to have a bandwagon (e.g. Node, Go, Rust) - It's not obscure enough to have a retro-cool following (e.g. Tcl, Forth) - It doesn't blaze any theoretical trails in computer science today (e.g. Haskell) - It's not associated with any evil corporate entity, allowing you to praise it "ironically" (e.g. C#) However, I find it to be a really p…
>> - It doesn't blaze any theoretical trails in computer science today (e.g. Haskell) Which is probably a good thing. As much I'm fascinating by functional programming (type system, lambda calculus, etc etc), I find it kinda difficult to program on :p
You get to know another paradigm which is very important. Object orientation already evolved into an ideology. So it's very good to get to know something so totally different.