50 Years of Pascal and Delphi is In Power It’s 50 years of the Pascal language and Delphi is its heir, empowering Pascal developers in today’s complex scenarios, despite being ignored by the Pascal language inventor
Niklaus Wirth published the paper The programming language Pascal in March 1971, which means it is exactly 50 years this month since the Pascal programming language was officially launched.
The renowned computer scientists celebrated the anniversary by writing a very interesting viewpoint article for Communications of the ACM (March 2021, Vol. 64 No. 3, Pages 39-41) and titled 50 Years of Pascal.
The article is fully worth reading and I suggest you to go over it before continuing with this blog post. I ll wait here. Done? OK, good, here are my comments.