[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/21/2019 4:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/21/19 4:09 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>> On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 4:05:51 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 1/21/19 3:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> It is not like uppercasing is a very special function that
>>>> only very few need.
>>>>
>>>> It is relative common.
>>>>
>>>> And many other mostly newer languages certainly has it.
>>>
>>> So push the Pascal Standards Committee to add it.  :-)

>> ISO/IEEE disbanded the committee years ago.  BTW, I was the secretary.
>>
> 
> I guess you missed the smiley.  I was well aware that Pascal is
> officially a dead language.  It was replaced by Modula, right?  :-)

Wirth went from Algol W to Pascal to Modula-2 to Oberon.

But neither Modula-2 nor Oberon caught on.

(I always thought that Modula-2 had great potential, but
the world went curly braces)

And Pascal still see some usage. VMS Pascal. Delphi on Windows.
Open source Lazarus/FPC is alive.

Probably less usage than COBOL, but about the same as FORTRAN.

Arne