On 31 Mar 2005 at 9:34, John Ollason wrote:
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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.
Perhaps I am over-pessimistic, and would be pleased to be proved wrong. I get ground down by the triumphalism of the C tradition, and its developments. I have the feeling that the rise of the object-oriented extensions to the C tradition of programming is to a great extent a work-around for the lack of real block-structuring in C and the languages that derive from it, and is largely unnecessary for Pascal, but this could just be a habitual structured-programmer's conservatism.
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.
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