Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern
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I'd stop worrying about this. Pascal is older than GUIs in a 100% literal sense. It's older than DOS. The only reason you *might* have a problem is if your school mandates a specific graphical-only distribution that's inaccessible, but it is basically impossible for any programming language that's used in a professional capacity to not have a command line compiler, and also for it not to offer the ability to write a console app.
There are only two offenders I can think of offhand that break this rule, and only one that breaks it completely. The first is Microsoft-specific technologies like C#, where you still get a command line compiler anyway, but you need their IDE due to lack of documentation and stuff (but you can do basic stuff anyway, and I have gone much further, it's just unpleasant without the IDE). The one that completely doesn't work is stuff for electronics design: Verilog and VHDL. This is because part of the process involves doing circuit layout graphically because computers can't do all of that for you, just most of it, but since you can't do anything with those without an oscilloscope and a bunch of other inaccessible hardware, it's not like that's your biggest issue.
There is a reason a lot of us go into programming, and quite bluntly, it's that it's very very hard to fuck up accessibility so badly you can't get around it somehow. You might be inefficient, you might have to work out undocumented utilities, you might have to reverse engineer a proprietary IDE or go install some custom GCC patch for xyz microcontroller from big enterprise corp that's only used in smart air vents on skyscrapers over 50 stories. But you usually can.
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