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ISO 7185 ("Standard Pascal") defines conformant arrays to be an optional feature, which gives us another -- entirely redundant -- reason to dislike K. S. Kyosuke, because K. S. Kyosuke either lies or is willing to make definitive, but wrong, claims out of ignorance.

http://www.pascal-central.com/pascal-syntax.html or a picture of it here: http://pascal-central.com/images/pascalflow.jpg You need to fix it firmly to the wall since it carries some strong type.

http://www.pascal-central.com/pascal-syntax.html or a picture of it here: http://pascal-central.com/images/pascalflow.jpg You need to fix it firmly to the wall since it carries some strong type.

Bill Catambay has done yeoman work in keeping the Pascal spark alive in all its flavors. For those of you who are nostalgic, curious, desperate, eager to find a centralized repository for mockery, or want to try one of the easiest, most powerful tools you've ever used, visit Pascal Central. Tools, compilers, source code, links, Bill's article on the reasons Pascal is still relevant (which I helped edit), and a community of people ready, willing, and able to get those of you interested in giving the language another look (or a first look) a lot of help and support.

If you want power, readability, a maintainable code base, easier string-handling, no-brainer memory management, and an elegant "No-BS" language, try Pascal. It has survived this long for a reason.

what?? I don't remember any of that from Borland Turbo Pascal!

No kidding. That's because it isn't true. At least not in any Pascal dialect I'm familiar with, and I used quite a few, Borland, Turbo, Apple Pascal on the Apple II, even an old VMS Pascal.

Maybe it was true of Wirth's initial language design spec, but in the real world, it simply wasn't a problem you had to deal with.

Thanks, I'll look into it. Can't believe that I haven't heard of it.

Name one thing you can do in C++ that you can't do in Object Pascal.

for(;P("\n").R-;P("|"))for(e=3DC;e-;P("_"+(*u++/ 8) %2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);

...it's one of the top 10 reasons

"may i ask why you need that amount of ram to begin with other then just to have it? i find even a gig of ram too much in most cases except when your runing a virtual pc or somthing similar."

I'm not the OP, but I've found that potrace needs LOTS of ram when doing a complicated, or very big picture.

For an example, try tracing the High-res Pascal.jpg posted last year.

http://www.pascal-central.com/pascal-syntax.html

Check out this link and look for the gpc compiler, The guys on the site--especially Adiraan van Os--have been doing some great work recently. Adriaan has developed a plug-in that works with Metrowerks Codewarrior (I was using it with Version 7).

I was one of the first to compile Pascal on Mac OS X (translated a C project to Pascal, kludged the resource file and voila! Pascal will continue to be useful for a long time to come.

strong typing, consistent syntax, specific to borland (I'm not talking about old school pascal here, but) BASM really makes meshing asm and pascal easy and consistent.

C# is basically pascal with curly braces instead of begin/end (along with all the ++=/-=**%^ inconsistencies that make it suck). I work in C# and obj pascal everyday (obj. pascal for optimization critical code, c# for high level BS) and I prefer obj pascal over C# or C++. Aside from java, I don't have experience with those "other" languages mainly because I develope for windows and unix (where do all these froto,grox,dipschil,etc languages come from anyways???)

and of course, the top 10 reasons

2. The trend for english to become the "standard" language world-wide