Redpill me on Lazarus/Free Pascal/Object Pascal. Been playing

>>60850169
https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
read that.

>>60850169
opensores delphi 7 remake

language was popular 20 years ago since it was a more powerful alternative to visual basic and wasn't as slow and awful as .net (which is decent now but was ass back in its early days)

language is annoying if you're used to c++ or something but it's nice for quickly making gui bullshit with native performance

>>60850329
>1981
the modern dialect solves a lot of the whining in that piece

>>60850329
A paper from 1981...

Judging C as it existed in 1981 would leave it to be an absolutely horrible, unusable language, itself.

Neither C nor Pascal are as they existed back then, and Pascal has evolved a lot more than C has.

>assignments use :=
absolutely disgusting