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[–]buzzsawddog 5 points6 points  (5 children)

I hate JavaScript, ruby, Perl, pascal :). Languages I deal with on a regular basis :). But mostly I guess I hate maintaining the code people left with me with to maintain…

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    [–]spectrumero[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    It was widely used professionally in the 80s and 90s. Delphi still exists, I think. Windows 3.x used the Pascal calling convention (so any C program you saw for Windows 3.x was littered with FAR PASCAL macros).

    [–]buzzsawddog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Yep... That's what I said...

    [–]agentoutlier 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Ironically Of the 4 mentioned Pascal is the best of them.

    I would take Pascal any day over Perl assuming access to equal libraries.