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Pascal
Believe it or not, Pascal was in the top 3 languages when I was a teenager. Let's dive in!
Checking the sample code
...except, we cannot: it seems to be unsupported on tech.io
...
Which is understandable, given the fact, that it fell out of the top 100 languages by popularity long time ago.
So, instead of running a Chuck Norris
sample solution in Pascal, let me show you a screenshot from Borland Pascal 7.0
, an IDE that was well ahead of its time 25+ years ago:
While I used to know Pascal "inside-out", I admit that I have largely forgotten it, so I will skip going into more details here.
Resources to check
- Overview on Wikipedia
- Official tutorial: NO, trust me, no-one is learning to code in Pascal nowadays...
- But if you insist, you can check out Free Pascal Compiler
Coming next...
After this short detour, let's continue with a language, that really stood the test of time: C++!
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