Arugula, Monday, 13 April 12026 HE, ides
2026-04-13 | 26D13 | 2026-103 | 2461144
2026-W16-1 | Q2 | Verano
2013-02-09 – Apple iPhone 4
winter sycamore, San José, California
Hipstamatic, GSQUAD lens, GS-0 film
Underworld – “Born Slippy .NUXX” ↗
I started out programming in BASIC, then a high-school class in C, then university started everyone with Pascal, with the Computer Science students moving on to C and the engineering students moving to Fortran – and like many at the time, I thought Pascal was overly verbose and straitjacketed (especially after the flexibility of BASIC and the power of C)
but with the rise of retrocomputing, permacomputing, and countercomputing, Pascal is starting to look more and more appealing – with the rise of Turbo Pascal and then Delphi, Pascal revealed its hidden power and showed off its speed – even nowadays, programmers still have fond memories of Turbo Pascal – and a not-insignificant number of modern apps are still being developed in Free Pascal, including PeaZip, Double Commander, Pasta80 (Pascal on Z80), and Lazarus (Free Pascal’s own IDE) – and GitHub lists over 74K projects tagged “Pascal”
20 Most Popular Programming Languages in 2026 (Pascal at #9) ↗
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