Post #1640614

2026-04-18 00:23 UTC

Of all the programming languages that I had to learn over the years, my favourite is still Pascal. Many programmers hate Pascal because it has such a rigid structure, but my Pascal code has much fewer bugs than anything I write in any other language, exactly because that rigid structure keeps me from making a lot of stupid mistakes. #pascal #programming

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@davesomebody@twit.social 2026-04-18 04:08

@LordCaramac early MacOS was written in Pascal too. There was a lot of Pascal before the world shifted to C and C++. Not sure it was for the better either.

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@cerement@social.targaryen.house 2026-04-18 04:49

@LordCaramac I also think a large part of it is having it forced on you as a “teaching language” – similar to requiring Shakespeare, you just end up with resentment, not learning its merits until much later (have definitely seen several comments of devs looking back fondly on Turbo Pascal and Delphi)

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@Shepharo@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-18 06:26

@LordCaramac I used Turbo Pascal in my computer science A-Level and still remember it fondly. Got to use it once in my career, in the form of Delphi, but only for a year or so.

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@slembcke@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-20 05:12

@LordCaramac Pascal was my first statically typed and compiled language in the mid 90s. (Turbo Pascal on Mac) I’m sometimes curious to revisit it, but have never gotten around to it.

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@mysticmode@ieji.de 2026-07-05 02:01

@LordCaramac@discordian.social This is what I wanted to hear today! I started learning Object Pascal today with Lazarus IDE to build a GUI application that I was looking to do :)

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