[cctalk] Re: "It's dead, Jim" Was: Re: Intel 3086

Pascal is another "dead" language.  Altium used the Delphi system to create Protel 99, a Windows-based electronic design suite, and now has Altium Designer, a widely-used EDA package.  I still use Protel 99. Delphi is a descendant of Pascal.  I really liked Pascal, and found that once I got all the syntax bugs out of the program it almost always ran as designed, first time. I wrote a Gerber file to raster converter back in 1996, on Windows 95.  It worked, but I didn't do any further development on it.  Then, in 2014, I saw that the FPC (Free Pascal Compiler) existed for Linux, and ported the old Borland Turbo Pascal code over to FPC.  It was a very easy port, and works beautifully, and blazing fast on modern PC's. Jon