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++!
