A bit of news which I think has some interest here:
"Kattis" (open.kattis.com) is a site where students can make programming
exercises. This is quite important IMHO; companies look at Kattis
results when recruiting.
Recently, Kattis added Pascal support, using FPC 3.0.0! (Free Pascal
version 3.0.0+dfsg-2 whatever that means. The server runs Linux.)
I have made some of the exercises, and it works well. Not only that, I
routinely score in the top group in performance (together with all the
C++ solutions)! This is, of course, a matter of programming well, but it
is fun to see FPC outperforming Java all the time - and this is visible
to all users! Of course, *one* fast Pascal solution won't be noticed by
many, but still I think it is an opportinuty to show that our language
is useful!
For instance, here is the statistics for the "Good Morning" problem.
Yes, that "1" on Pascal is me.
https://open.kattis.com/problems/goodmorning/statistics
Most importantly, it means that an important educational tool accepts
FPC! Pascal students can now compete with the C++ students!
/Ingemar
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