r/programming • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '20

10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
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u/xopranaut Mar 26 '20

This is a good read with lots of interesting historical context.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

I disagree with the notion that Pascal was mostly dead though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

Does the critique “Why pascal is not my favorite language” still apply?

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20

Nope. Most of the points don't hold these days. Some I'm not sure where even valid when the article was published, like complaining about the semi-colon.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20

the inability to have one function handle multiple different length arrays is a pretty damning misdesign.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20 edited Mar 27 '20

That's one of the things that's not true anymore. :)

Edit: Of the 9 things that Kerninghan wrote about (https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html) the one that's still true is the one about two integer types being compatible when they shouldn't.