XPost: alt.folklore.computers
From: bowman@montana.com

On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 06:33:22 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:
>
>> On 06/01/2026 03:37, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    And I still write in Pascal fairly often - like it better than
>>>>    'C'.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure to what extent there was an attempt early on to
>>> standardize the extensions, but this would have helped adoption of the
>>> language immensely.
>>
>> AFAIAC Pascal was C in a straitjacket with all the handy bits removed.
>>
>> I saw no reason to ever use it in preference.
>
> I remember at work recommending Borland C++, which I really liked based
> on Turbo C++ (IIRC).
>
> Imagine my dismay when seeing weird behavior in the debugger and then
> finding out that the VCL framework was... Delphi (Object Pascal).

I preferred OWL to MFC but the 500# gorilla won.

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