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Turbo Pascal and Forth were my first languages past Assembly on C64. They were so much better then Basic and Assembly for a young teenagers. Delphi is now $1,200 to $4,400 a user!!! WOW more then the $75 in 1983 https://www.embarcadero.com/app-development-tools-store/delp...
Weird anyone still uses this, I first saw Object Pascal on a Apple Lisa in 1983.
FWIW Apple's Object Pascal and modern Object Pascal have little common. Although i think Free Pascal does have a Mac Pascal mode so that it can understand Apple's Object Pascal dialect.
However I can see how one would prefer Object Pascal over C++.
"You can also define your own types" , "classes can also inherit other classes" , "Pascal is modular" ... Not to say these are not valid reasons, or expectations one may have from a language, but - what exactly is Pascal being compared to? I mean, it's 2017.
I have been searching for it for 15 min now, but last month or so on hn there was a article comparing programming languages and compilers. fpc performance was comparable to c.
Also a mvp production exe will be 2.5 MB, no stdlib/.net/qt needed.
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C has no classes, and everything's in one global namespace. Scheme & LISP have no built-in classes, and one can argue that CLOS isn't what we normally describe as OOP. Both normally have a global namespace. Inheritance in JavaScript is possible but very hard to implement correctly before ES6. Node has namespaces (sort of) but client-side JavaScript generally doesn't. PHP in theory has namespaces, but the standard lib…
I'm not saying these are features provided by every modern programming language - obviously eg. there are FP languages that are not object-oriented, as you pointed out. Still, the selection of languages that do is so vast that such reasons hardly answer the question "why Pascal, of all the options".
I care about performance (ruling out any GC language), multi-platform native binaries, language readability, dev community, and a bundle of other factors. Pascal turns out to hit most of my needs and not annoy me too much.
Of the thousands of more obscure languages, I'm sure there's one that'd be perfect, except I'd have a worse time with libraries.
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FWIW Apple's Object Pascal and modern Object Pascal have little common. Although i think Free Pascal does have a Mac Pascal mode so that it can understand Apple's Object Pascal dialect.
From what I've read Object Pascal is just another name for Delphi but without the trademark hassle.
As for Pascal vs Object Pascal, Procedural vs OOP, Think C vs C++(not that I'm saying c++ is better).
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C has no classes, and everything's in one global namespace. Scheme & LISP have no built-in classes, and one can argue that CLOS isn't what we normally describe as OOP. Both normally have a global namespace. Inheritance in JavaScript is possible but very hard to implement correctly before ES6. Node has namespaces (sort of) but client-side JavaScript generally doesn't. PHP in theory has namespaces, but the standard lib…
> PHP in theory has namespaces, but the standard libraries are just dumped in global. Modern PHP development almost exclusively uses Composer libraries rather than the standard libraries, which overwhelmingly use namespaces in Vendor\Project format. There's going to be a push to clean up the standard library in the coming years. The plan is to introduce a namespaced alternative to the standard library in the global n…
I've tried picking up Free Pascal and, for me, the documentation is lacking. I come from C# where Microsoft has amazing documentation and small examples on how to use just about every single class in the .NET framework. I guess I'm just spoiled with the documentation I have had and need to get used to it.