[brd]

I won't even bother clicking this click bait title. I learned Pascal as a sophomore in high school and by my senior year I knew I'd never touch it again. At the time it was a great introductory language but there's very little reason anyone should even be thinking about Pascal these days.

Fun fact: I still have my old pascal files on floppy disks in a box somewhere with a not so thin layer of dust on them.

[oaiey]

I still think it is brutal we let our industry rookies learn complicated programming concepts in complicated languages like Java, python, js or god forbid anything functional.

I still think it is a huge mistake be Microsoft to let Basic rot away and that our industry should focus teaching on something like Pascal which does not stand in your way

[pjmlp]

Visual Basic 6 remains unmatched in how to deal with COM.

It is incredible given how much WinDev doubles down on COM, that they keep failing on producing any kind of tooling that is as productive as the VB 6 experiece used to be.

[dolmen]

Same here. Including the fun fact.