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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
Message-ID: <6157@claris.com>
Date: 21 Oct 88 14:09:49 GMT
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Reply-To: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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> I am at Lafayette College as a sophomore and there is a certain
> element that seems to think that Pascal is dying out.  They say that
> in 20 years, it will be long gone.

Others have replied to the effect that this might be the case in the "real"
world; however, I have seen enough evidence to the contrary to doubt their
accuracy.  The following are among "best-selling" software packages written
in Pascal:
	4th Dimension
	dBASE Mac
	FullWrite Professional
	MacDraw
	MacDraw II
	MacPaint
	MacProject
	MacinTax
	MacMoney
	FileMaker II
	NutShell
	Turbo Pascal
	HyperCard
	ReflexPlus
There are a lot of others, but those are the ones that come quickly to mind.
The thing that you will note about most/all of them is that they are written
with "industrial-strength" (significantly extended) dialects of Pascal.  This
is particularly true of the Macintosh products.  Sales reports indicate that
in the Macintosh market, C and Pascal are essentially tied in popularity and
sales.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!