Hi, On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM Kirn Gill II via Freedos-devel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I am glad to confirm that in 2026, Ada remains a viable option for those >> > of us interested in modern-ish programming on a retro-DOS platform. >> >> >> Ada is from 1980 (or 1983 with fixes) originally. I'm not disagreeing >> it's "modern", but I wouldn't ignore other classic languages either >> just because of perceived age. In particular, Pascal heavily inspired >> Ada and is still nice (IMHO). I've actually been on a Modula-2 journey >> recently, but I spent years on Pascal (and Oberon) and various others. > > > Yes, but the vast majority of DOS software is written in various programming > languages that predate DOS itself.
I check TIOBE every month, mostly out of curiosity. I am no expert, but there's a lot out there. * https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ So even though there's several languages I enjoy, that curiosity is not enough to have tried even half of the stuff out there. In many ways, the default wisdom is just use what DJGPP has (or similar projects like FreeBASIC or Free Pascal). There's many ways to solve problems, and I'm glad FreeDOS (my favorite) is one of them. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
