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by greencore 2275 days ago
In Lithuania and perhaps in similar countries Pascal is still main programming language in classrooms. Also no other language has beaten Pascal in number of released books so it will stay for very long time.
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I almost started a new retrocomputing-related project in pascal recently because FreePascal seems to be the only stable maintained toolchain that still can target 8086
I can confirm! My high school was in Slovakia and I know other people had the same experience with Pascal.