[cctalk] Re: "It's dead, Jim" Was: Re: Intel 3086

[Jon Elson via cctalk]

Pascal is another "dead" language.  Altium used the Delphi 
system to create Protel 99, a Windows-based electronic 
design suite, and now has Altium Designer, a widely-used EDA 
package.  I still use Protel 99.

Delphi is a descendant of Pascal.  I really liked Pascal, 
and found that once I got all the syntax bugs out of the 
program it almost always ran as designed, first time.

I wrote a Gerber file to raster converter back in 1996, on 
Windows 95.  It worked, but I didn't do any further 
development on it.  Then, in 2014, I saw that the FPC (Free 
Pascal Compiler) existed for Linux, and ported the old 
Borland Turbo Pascal code over to FPC.  It was a very easy 
port, and works beautifully, and blazing fast on modern PC's.

Jon