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A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal fans (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 month ago by woelkchen@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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Direct link to release notes: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_4.0_release_notes

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[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had no idea pascal still alive and kicking

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Right? Crazy. Next they'll say BASIC is still around.

[–] psyomn@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Ada is still around too and getting updates (just mentioning because I always found Pascal similar to Ada).

[–] quantenzitrone -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

please stop torturing students with this horrible language

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I will. I promise. I'm also not a teacher.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I love Object Pascal. Its the prog language that most resembles my thinking.