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by frozenport 3930 days ago
Today this is true for a more obvious reason; Pascal is legacy.
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It's not a very popular language, but people are still starting new projects in flavors of Pascal. Have you seen http://www.lazarus-ide.org/?
We are actually using pascal for a very large project in healthcare (journal management). There is nothing wrong with the language, per se even though it is not the fanciest one.

Our codebase is one of the cleanest I have worked with, and it compiles very fast. We are using freepascal, and even though I would not use it for my hobby projects (which I try to do mostly in scheme or factor) I would say it is one of the more pleasant languages I have worked in.