I am a complete neophyte to Pascal and Lazarus. Why would anyone program in Pascal, given the plethora of other, more current open-source programming languages available out there? What features does it have that those other languages do not? As just one example, Julia. What major corporations use it? Thank you.
"more current open-source programming languages"? Did you notice that Free Pascal is Open Source, don't you? And that latest version is a few days old?