18 engineers on Hacker News describe using Pascal first-hand: 4 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Pascal Units enforced you to figure out cyclic dependencies, unfortunately lots of us thought of this as a limitation”
endorse · personal · malkia · 2023-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There is a lot to love about Pascal and in those days the Borland TurboPascal compiler was a breeze to use.”
endorse · personal · vivegi · 2022-09-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Pascal was also my first real language after Basic. And never again.”
regret · personal · bufferoverflow · 2020-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it rather profoundly improved my programming.”
endorse · personal · analog31 · 2020-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our first choice language was Pascal. However, sometimes we needed to write at low levels for performance... we switched to C.”
regret · production · pjdemers · 2020-03-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“C was more convenient than doing assembler, but not much more, compared to say Pascal.”
endorse · personal · Roboprog · 2016-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote 100s of programs in pascal (for DOS and later Delphi) and C/C++ in the 80-90s myself”
neutral · production · anonzzzies · 2024-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I went from Basic to Pascal to C/C++ to Java to Python which bear more than a passing resemblance to one another.”
neutral · personal · dventimi · 2023-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The original system was mostly written in Pascal, on a minicomputer. ... No new Pascal code was written on Unix.”
neutral · production · Tor3 · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That perpetual calendar in Pascal for a uni assignment, written with enormous hangover within an hour”
neutral · personal · varjag · 2023-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Pascal seemed to compile faster on the Apple IIs back in highschool than M2 did on the Macs in college”
neutral · personal · drewg123 · 2022-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nope. Asm, then later Pascal quickly followed by C.”
neutral · personal · cagey · 2022-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“actually pascal was my first compiled language”
neutral · personal · dnautics · 2020-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched into a Pascal class, that I already knew, because it was taught by the math department”
neutral · personal · bobochan · 2016-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“once ported it to a Pascal compiler I adapted to handle concurrency.”
neutral · personal · Animats · 2014-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“then Pascal/C/Scheme/Lisp in college”
neutral · personal · ww520 · 2012-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using Pascal/Delphi almost exclusively for all my projects until 2003.”
neutral · production · krasin · 2012-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've taught introductory computer programming in Scheme and Pascal.”
neutral · personal · cwilbur · 2011-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?