On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:37:59AM +0100, Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
On 31 Mar 2005 at 9:34, John Ollason wrote:
Remember that Pascal has also had OOP for a very long time. I think that event-driven programming would be quite hard (if not impossible) without OOP.
In fact, for many years, the Apple Macintosh operating systems were mostly written in Pascal (until they switched to (Objective) C). The first extensions to Pascal including objects were driven by Apple. Not only for GUI matters, but for many other OS-based services.
Delphi programmers are still in demand; there are still many real products developed in Delphi. Unfortunately, the preceding sentence shows that the word Pascal need not be used. Even Borland avoids using the word Pascal (presumably because it sounds old-fashioned).
Tom