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   Hi Dr.,   
      
   (Your real name is broken!)   
      
   On 2024-04-09 05:21:47, you wrote to me:   
      
    WvV>> Who, in their right mind, is still using Pascal, if they can avoid   
    WvV>> it? ;-)   
      
    DW> Those of who are playing with vintage CP/M and MS-DOS machines.  Turbo   
   Pascal   
    DW> was probably the best tool for programming on those systems.   
      
   That's an opinion! ;)   
      
   I liked Turbo C ...   
      
    WvV>> In Fidonet there are a few legacy programs that were written in   
    WvV>> Pascal. But of those I don't think there are many that are actively   
    WvV>> maintained.   
      
    DW> Someone correct me, but doesn't Mystic BBS still allow you to program   
   things   
    DW> in Pascal?   
      
   I highly doubt Mystic has a Pascal compiler build into it. So it probably has   
   support for executables. So it doesn't matter what language they are written   
   in.   
      
    DW> Or did they finally move to Python?   
      
   I have Python seen being mentioned in the Mystic area...   
      
    DW> But the ghosts of these old languages still exist in the modern ones.    
   Pascal   
    DW> wouldn't have existed without Algol.  Java borrows heavily from Pascal.   
      
   I think Java much more looks like C(++)!   
      
    DW> And how many languages have riffed off Java?   
      
   I think you are confused with C !   
      
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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