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644 points ustad | 7 comments | 22 Aug 25 09:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.34s | source | bottom
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pjmlp ◴[22 Aug 25 12:12 UTC] No.44983556[source]▶
As usual, lets revisit something that Pascal could do in 1976,

    type

    StatusCodes = (Success, Ongoing, Done)
Go in 2025,

    type StatusCodes int

    const (
        Success StatusCodes = iota
        Ongoing
        Done
    )
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1. thiht ◴[22 Aug 25 12:13 UTC] No.44983559[source]▶
Where's Pascal today?
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2. terminalbraid ◴[22 Aug 25 12:18 UTC] No.44983595[source]▶
Just below Go with Perl in between. All above Fortran, all below Visual Basic.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

3. ofrzeta ◴[22 Aug 25 12:19 UTC] No.44983604[source]▶
It's alive and kicking, right? :) https://www.freepascal.org They even have a game engine that can compile to a WASM target: https://castle-engine.io/web
4. dardeaup ◴[22 Aug 25 12:21 UTC] No.44983630[source]▶
Ouch!! Pascal's lack of popularity certainly isn't due to the fact that it supports such nice enumerated types (or sets for that matter). I think he was just pointing out that such nice things have existed (and been known to exist) for a long time and that it's odd that a new language couldn't have borrowed the feature.
5. pjmlp ◴[22 Aug 25 12:24 UTC] No.44983657[source]▶
Being used by these folks, https://www.embarcadero.com/

If you prefer, I can provide the same example in C, C++, D, Java, C#, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Nim, Zig, Odin.

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6. fuzztester ◴[22 Aug 25 19:16 UTC] No.44988665[source]▶
Please do. Would be interesting to read.
7. kragen ◴[22 Aug 25 20:17 UTC] No.44989310[source]▶
Pascal evolved into Modula-2, which Wirth then simplified into Oberon. His student Griesemer did his dissertation on extending Oberon for parallel programming on supercomputers. Concurrently, Pike found Modula-2 an inspiration for some languages he wrote in the 80s and 90s. He got together with Griesemer and Ken Thompson to rework one of those languages, Newsqueak, into Golang. So that's where Pascal is today.