2009/10/16 Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>: > In our previous episode, Jürgen Hestermann said: >> > You can post an ad for a C >> > programmer and get 1,000 applicants, if you post an ad for a Pascal >> > programmer you might get 5, at least where I live. >> >> Yes, that maybe true. But how has all this started? As far as I know, C >> was not that popular in past (at least not on Windows). Instead (Turbo) >> Pascal was a widely used language. Suddenly this turned. May have come >> from Linux, where C was standard. I don't know. > > As far as I saw it, it was simple: > > - C was used in IT, specially in America. > - Pascal was used in engineering and science, specially in Europe. > > Engineering stopped programming by hand, and moved to Matlab and more > specialized tools. Moreover, there was a consolidation in IT, and many of > the surviving companies were American, with a C/C++ legacy.
The thing that cuts it for me, at least, is that in linux, if you need to hack the kernel, drivers, bootloader, or even just use anything in /dev, it's a lot easier to use c. Also, it targets a greater number of architectures. We've made the mistake of writing code in pascal that we later needed to port, but had to re-write. It's come a long way, though, and armel port seems to be quite usable nowadays. Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
