Discussion Object is still around and being used in 2019.

[whm1974]

I did a search earlier last night to see if Pascal was still being used in 2019 aside from supporting legacy code and programs. Yep it sure is, including Delphi:
https://www.embarcadero.com/
And a FOSS version is available as well with a IDE:
https://www.freepascal.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE)

Although it seems that not as widespread in use as it was during the 80's and early 90's.
This sounds like an ideal language for a beginner to learn programming. The Free Pascal Compiler(FPC) is available on multiple OSes and CPU platforms.

 

[whm1974]

@VirtualLarry What do you think of modern versions of Object Pascal and IDEs such as Delphi and Lazarus? Delphi is sure is expensive... Especially for Linux.
https://www.embarcadero.com/app-development-tools-store/delphi

 

[VirtualLarry]

I was personally never 'big' on Pascal. I never used Borland's Pascal, which had an expanded language repatior, which alleviated most of the negative issues about it, language-wise.

I much prefer C/C++/ASM, or even BASIC.

 

[whm1974]

I was personally never 'big' on Pascal. I never used Borland's Pascal, which had an expanded language repatior, which alleviated most of the negative issues about it, language-wise.

I much prefer C/C++/ASM, or even BASIC.

BASIC in 2019? As far as I can tell from asking questions on the the Forum and reading the Wiki/Documentation Object Pascal is way more useful and powerful then any form of BASIC is or will be.
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/board,61.0.html

 

[VirtualLarry]

No, not 2019, last time I was actually doing some programming, like 15-20 years ago.

Microsoft Professional BASIC. On 5.25" floppies.

 

[whm1974]

No, not 2019, last time I was actually doing some programming, like 15-20 years ago.

Microsoft Professional BASIC. On 5.25" floppies.

On what platform(s)?

 

[whm1974]

@VirtualLarry Wouldn't that be farther back then 15-20 years?

 

[mxnerd]

The title should be Object Pascal is still around. (Mostly used in Delphi)

Anyway, Basic is still used in many MS products: Access, Word, Excel and other Office products.

They all use Visual Basic for Applications.

 

[mxnerd]

@VirtualLarry Wouldn't that be farther back then 15-20 years?

That's about 25-30 years ago.

I did most programming using CLIPPER (DOS based), some Foxpro, then switch to MS Access / VB6.

Learned all of them on the job and took some community college classes.

C & Pascal was taught in university, but never used them for work.

CLIPPER added objects in it's late development. Amazing.

The conversion to object oriented & event driven programming was really hard.

 

[whm1974]

The title should be Object Pascal is still around. (Mostly used in Delphi)

Anyway, Basic is still used in many MS products: Access, Word, Excel and other Office products.

They all use Visual Basic for Applications.

I think faster then I type.

 

[whm1974]

So there an Operating system written in Pascal and series of Microprocessors that that were designed to run the P-System and run it well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_MicroEngine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal

Has anyone used these two back in the day?

 

[mxnerd]

Yep, UCSD Pascal was what I was taught at school.

 

[whm1974]

Yep, UCSD Pascal was what I was taught at school.

Did you use the P-System OS as well?

 

[mxnerd]

Did you use the P-System OS as well?

No. I believe it was running on IBM PC DOS or MS DOS.

 

[whm1974]

No. I believe it was running on IBM PC DOS or MS DOS.

I wonder if the P-System would have fared better if it was the same price as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC?

 

[mxnerd]

I wonder if the P-System would have fared better if it was the same price as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC?

Never saw it or used it, and had no idea how much did it cost.

 

[whm1974]

I installed Double Commander, a cross platform file manager written using Free Pascal and Lazarus. I will play around with this to see if I prefer using it over Thunar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Commander

 

[whm1974]

I just discovered a magazine for current Pascal programmers:
https://www.blaisepascalmagazine.eu/

 

[robvas]

I liked Pascal but I'd use Python these days to teach programming.