TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49
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-=> Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Tim Schattkowsky <=-

 WvV> Who, in their right mind, is still using Pascal, if they can avoid it?
 WvV> ;-)

Those of who are playing with vintage CP/M and MS-DOS machines.  Turbo Pascal
was probably the best tool for programming on those systems.

 WvV> In Fidonet there are a few legacy programs that were written in Pascal.
 WvV> But of those I don't think there are many that are actively maintained.

Someone correct me, but doesn't Mystic BBS still allow you to program things in
Pascal?  Or did they finally move to Python?

But the ghosts of these old languages still exist in the modern ones.  Pascal
wouldn't have existed without Algol.  Java borrows heavily from Pascal.  And
how many languages have riffed off Java?


... You've obviously been educated beyond your intelligence.
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