Useful languages on UNIX that are not C - was Re: C trivia - was Re: Dennis Ritchie has died

Thanks Gene. My first reaction was "no way!" since I'm kind of the opposite of what you could remotely call a fan of anything Wirthless had anything to do with except Modula-2. But I started looking over the Free Pascal pages and there's a lot going on there. I know Delphi has been used to create quite a few UIs, Object Pascal seems to have some life left in it and enough guys around to keep it going. Extending your suggestion, I wonder if Kylix is still around or if older copies will run on Linux and UNIX or just Linux, and if any of the Free Pascal and Lazarus code would work with it. BTW thanks for your .sig. I omit mine most of the time but every time I see yours I feel a little better. Mine is actually two lines longer so I will have to be a little more creative and trim it, but still :p -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Vintage Coder America Online ivagntrpbqre at nby.pbz <ROT13> | | | | Collecting: DOS assemblers, compilers, & books (Z80, M68K, 6502, 808X) | | Software & doc for IBM S/360 through OS/390 | | | | Wants: Ada 95 compilers for MVS/ESA & Solaris SPARC | | PL/I X Optimizing Compiler for MVS, APL/SV for MVS | | Stony Brook Modula-2 for Solaris SPARC | |---------------------------------------+--------------------------------| | Powered by Slackware 64 Intel and Solaris 10 SPARC | |=======================================+================================| | PGP Key 4096R 0x1CB84BEFC73ACB32 Encrypted email preferred | | PGP Fingerprint 5C1C 3AEB A7B2 E6F7 34A0 2870 1CB8 4BEF C73A CB32 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+