[Cialug] Question?

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> With dotnet and mono coming to linux. I was woundering --
> Why not pascal?
> 
> It seems to not get the attention of c, c++, or mono.
> But, It can be compiled for Linux or Windows, maybe OSX?
> 
> I'm not a programmer, and was basically wondering why Pascal seems left
> out of the debate. Seem to me it would also run faster then VB.net or Mono
> since produces compiled programs.
> 
> Technical issues I'm not aware of maybe?
> I took a programming class in college (Pascal) and thinking of looking
> into the language again. I found this:
> http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
> and
> http://www.borland.com/kylix/index.html
> 
> 

evidently, it just turned 30, and the story on /. had many "it 
sucks"/"it rules" flames and what it's doing today (.net/C#, 
objective-c, etc)

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/21/2017251&tid=156

-barry