On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 1:34 AM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Finally, FPC became almost completely unsuitable for competitive >> programming, >> which drives away influential part of next programmers generation. >> At the last year International Olympiad in Informatics I have given a >> passionate speech >> against excluding Free Pascal from a list of available languages, >> and succeeded in postponing that decision for a few years, >> but the writing is still on the wall. >> >> So reluctantly I started to phase out FPC/Lazarus in my work >> in favor of PascalABC/Python for high school and ะก++/C# for university. >> For the record, C# is the only language in that list that I like. >> > > I found something similar. Do you think you can add to your explanation of > why it is no longer competitive?
At first popularity declined because Pascal did not have efficient data structures and algorithms in standard library (which is ironic for a language introduced in a book named "Algorithms + Data Structures"). Now, community simply forgot about it. I heard children use "you program in Pascal" as a taunt meaning "you are not well-educated" :) -- Alexander S. Klenin -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
