[gwbas1c]

Wait, Pascal was in use in 2010? I thought it was a dead language when I used it in high school in 1997-1998.

[jodrellblank]

Turkey bought Delphi licenses for a million students just a couple' months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22116275

[kick]

Pascal has been in an incredibly strange state of being both dead and alive simultaneously for the past thirty years.

...but yeah, it was definitely doing pretty good throughout the 1990s.

[sigzero]

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons even languages may die."

[abetlen]

Weird right? I learned Pascal in highschool in Ontario around 2010 as well. I remember being really frustrated at the time because we weren't learning some modern language like Java or Python. Instead we were stuck with Turbo Pascal, writing in an IDE so old it only supported 8 character long filenames. Thank god we had an amazing teacher which ended up making it one of the best CS classes I've ever taken.

[Tyr42]

I know Turing (which is pascal packed up with a graphics library and manual and editor all in one exe) was in use in Ontario Schools as late as 2010.

[badsectoracula]

Well, depending if you count Free Pascal and Delphi (aka Object Pascal) or only Wirth's original Pascal, it is still used today.