Why Pascal Is Dead?

Why Pascal Is Dead?

The demise of Pascal is IMHO mainly caused by Borland sticking to it's GUI way of working, while its customers moved on to the Web. Borland never had a really attractive offer for server-side development.

Why is Pascal no longer used?

The original Pascal had to be extended in order to "scale" for greater projects (i.e. no notion of modules/units, etc.). Implementations extended Pascal to acommodate the needs of application development. As mentioned: by Philip this lead to fragmentation.

Is Pascal programming dead?

Yes, you can still do Pascal programming in it, but few people do; in fact, you can use Delphi to build for many different platforms including iOS, Android, and, soon, Linux. ... So, Object Pascal is dead.

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