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by bdamm 1848 days ago
Somehow this feels like sarcasm, given that Pascal is older that pretty much everyone on this forum.
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insulanus 1848 days ago
The novelty of a tool is not directly correlated to its worth, because we can always make new, worse tools.

Newer tools CAN make use of new information in a better design, but it doesn't always happen.

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benibela 1848 days ago
Seriously: https://github.com/benibela?tab=repositories

I have been doing it for 20 years, and all the time Pascal had null-safe strings and C-like performance. And the strings even had mutability xor aliasing with copy on write

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pjmlp 1847 days ago
Imagine an alternative reality where Borland did not went greedy, Java 1.0 would just be like Go, while .NET Native would just be improved VB 7 and a new language C# (just a kind of "managed C++") making COM developer friendly without C++ boilerplate that persists to this day.
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