Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern
Hello,
@1: take my deepest condolences.
1. Regarding accessibility no, as long as you use command line compiler, I don't know about ides.
2. No, powered to 10. I would rather use bath script than Pascal, personal opinion.
3. No. It is taught in schools, that's true, but that's simply about the fact, that many schools, including universities are simply not modern. Pascal is a very old functional language without oop and while its newer forks introduce some object oriented programming, the result is quite weird.
4. None of that. Instead of { and }, in Pascal, you use begin and end.
5. not anymore... luckily.
6. Yes, they definitely could.
7. Definitely not. I don't know about Pure basic, as I never used it, but BGT in terms of audiogames development is a much better choice than Pascal. Videogames development would be another thing though, here you would probably have to decide between Pascal and PB.
As for dictating your code to paper, if you can't actually simply print it, one thing, which you may find useful on Pascal is, that it's case insensitive. Thus you don't need to spell names of things character by character, but can actually say them as normal words.
As for Pascal's popularity, this is of course hard to summary objectively, but from all kinds of statistics I've seen, I don't remember a singleone where pascal would have at least middle place. There are few projects using it currently, Cheatengine for example if I remember right was made in Pascal, but overall the language is dying, if not dead already.
So if I was in your place, I would use it just for the school, and invest the time to something more useful.
Best regards
Rastislav
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