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Pascal is dead?
MarkMLl:
In any event: I've heard that more people in China speak English ("after a fashion") than in America. So it might be possible to argue that the major impact of the King's English is that it provided a linguistic framework for a substantial part of the World.
I'd argue that that's the role of Wirth's languages: now that languages such as C and C++ have accepted the idea of strong typing etc., they could be regarded as 'Pascal "after a fashion"'.
So the King's English and Pascal might only be used in their purest forms by a tiny number of people, but they live on. "After a fashion".
MarkMLl
loaded:
--- Quote from: BlueIcaro on December 19, 2022, 09:50:02 am ---Pascal is dead, then may be we are all us dead in this forum?
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The members of this form, from the youngest to the oldest, will leave the realm of life after a maximum of 100 years.
In this case, we can easily say that pascal has at least another 100 years of life.
Bogen85:
Well, judging by the backlog of issues for both Lazarus and Free Pascal, and due to more issues being submitted almost every day, one could argue that there is an active community that are expecting to be using both for quite a while.
Who files that many issues on dead projects, or on projects not expected to be around for a while?
It the active individuals involved thought Pascal was truly dead, they would be abandoning it for other projects.
Percentages of users spread across the current active language language projects is not the most important indicator.
Enough active users and developers to maintain critical mass is all that is needed, and the Lazarus and Free Pascal projects still have that.
Thaddy:
--- Quote from: loaded on December 19, 2022, 11:47:05 am ---The members of this form, from the youngest to the oldest, will leave the realm of life after a maximum of 100 years.
In this case, we can easily say that pascal has at least another 100 years of life.
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I am nearly 65. I turned range checks off...{$R-}
100 seems to be an arbitrary selection not founded in solid science.
Average range in my direct family can be calcutated in the range of 89..106.
I would recommend "Godfriend Bomans, de Honderd jarige" if you are proficient in Dutch, but there is an English translation.
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--- Quote from: Thaddy on December 27, 2022, 10:22:29 pm ---I am nearly 65. I turned range checks off...{$R-}
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65 It is the autumn of youth. May God give you a healthy and long life.
--- Quote from: Thaddy on December 27, 2022, 10:22:29 pm ---100 seems to be an arbitrary selection not founded in solid science.
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Yes, it's not scientific, but it's not arbitrary either. It is a number that I have obtained as a result of my observations around me. ;)
Let's recalculate;
I said 100. You said 106. Let the average of the two be 103. Let's go further, let's get 116. Let's do a final calculation, let's smooth out the result, let's get 120.
Whatever the number is, the inevitable truth; Everything that was created will be freed and destroyed.
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