Subj : Re: Re^2: Still there?
To   : Dr. What
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Tue Apr 09 2024 15:48:03

Hi Dr.,

(Your real name is broken!)

On 2024-04-09 05:21:47, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> Who, in their right mind, is still using Pascal, if they can avoid
 WvV>> it? ;-)

 DW> Those of who are playing with vintage CP/M and MS-DOS machines.  Turbo Pascal
 DW> was probably the best tool for programming on those systems.

That's an opinion! ;)

I liked Turbo C ...

 WvV>> In Fidonet there are a few legacy programs that were written in
 WvV>> Pascal. But of those I don't think there are many that are actively
 WvV>> maintained.

 DW> Someone correct me, but doesn't Mystic BBS still allow you to program things
 DW> in Pascal?

I highly doubt Mystic has a Pascal compiler build into it. So it probably has support for executables. So it doesn't matter what language they are written in.

 DW> Or did they finally move to Python?

I have Python seen being mentioned in the Mystic area...

 DW> But the ghosts of these old languages still exist in the modern ones.  Pascal
 DW> wouldn't have existed without Algol.  Java borrows heavily from Pascal.

I think Java much more looks like C(++)!

 DW> And how many languages have riffed off Java?

I think you are confused with C !


Bye, Wilfred.

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