Pascal in production environments (was Re: lisadraw)

Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Yeah, but the best languages are repurposed and modified to do things that their designers never imagined. Look at what happened to Perl. How many people do Practical Extraction and Reporting with it? It reinvented itself multiple times through the 90's. BASIC has also mutated into forms completely unimaginable in Dartmouth timesharing. I despise lots of the mutations, but it is far from dying out! While the original Pascal was indeed useless beyond classroom exercises, it had enough spirit that it caught on in a couple areas. While I can name a couple of odd areas that COBOL made it into (believe it or not, compilers were written in COBOL) and Smalltalk lives on in a few odd corners completely unrelated to language research, those "caught ons" are minor compared to the areas that Pascal did succeed at. Tim.