In our previous episode, J?rgen Hestermann said: > > You can post an ad for a C > > programmer and get 1,000 applicants, if you post an ad for a Pascal > > programmer you might get 5, at least where I live. > > Yes, that maybe true. But how has all this started? As far as I know, C > was not that popular in past (at least not on Windows). Instead (Turbo) > Pascal was a widely used language. Suddenly this turned. May have come > from Linux, where C was standard. I don't know.
As far as I saw it, it was simple: - C was used in IT, specially in America. - Pascal was used in engineering and science, specially in Europe. Engineering stopped programming by hand, and moved to Matlab and more specialized tools. Moreover, there was a consolidation in IT, and many of the surviving companies were American, with a C/C++ legacy. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
