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Pascal as a Hobby Language

Recently, I was looking for a programming language to just play around with. Just something that I could do some trivial programming and yet come up with something useful in the end. By day I work in C#, C and C++ so I really wanted to get away from curly braces. I had been playing around with Smalltalk with Pharo but the emphasis there has move to web programming. Too many moving parts. I really wanted something that would compile and let me still work more on a machine level as opposed to working with a VM. Surprisingly, my search took me back to Pascal.... read more