On 31 Mar 2005 at 7:40, John Ollason wrote:
Greetings,
I follow the postings on the mailing list with interest but seldom feel that I have anything to contribute. I am becoming concerned that some fundamental questions that we ought to address are simply being ignored. The most important question is Is Pascal a dead language?
[...] Go here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 and look at the number of downloads of gpc (for Win32), and compare with with the downloads of gcc on the same page. Furthermore, go to the Delphi newsgroups and see what is happening there.
Pascal is far from a dying language, even if no-one is teaching it in school (I didn't learn it in school, but am rather self taught - and so are the vast majority of Delphi/BP programmers that I know). If Pascal was a dying language, I doubt that Borland would expend enormous resources in continuing to develop Delphi.
Best regards, The Chief -------- Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) web: http://www.greatchief.plus.com/