Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Nightfox
From : hollowone
Date : Mon Jan 08 2024 03:35:04

 Ni> I took a few CS programming classes in college in 1999-2000, and they
 Ni> were teaching C++.  I ended up going into a software engineering
 Ni> program.  I never had any Pascal classes in college.

I think that's the time where all schools successfuly adopted Windows and dropped MSDOS in its curriculum. Pascal (and Borland's compilers and tools specifically) was dominant in MS-DOS times.

I also remember when Win9x really kicked in and during Windows 2000 definitively it was already Visual Studio/C era or emerging Java in schools.

Some tried Delphi, but only for some DB apps.. Delphi never was as universal as Borland/Turbo Pascal could be. I believe one of the reasons of Borland's demise, shortly after.

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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