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Exploring Free Pascal For The First Time As A Web Developer.
Havenāt you ever wanted a compiler that can handle cross-platform development with a solid 60 years of durability in the tank?
Well, maybe it already exists.
Pascal is a programming language that emphasizes structure and readability over many optimizations and is considered a high-level programming language with an easy-to-read syntax unlike the complete opposite low-level programming language C.
Feel free to read writing C in Docker for more information.
Weāll be talking about what makes Free Pascal an old-fashioned but still very effective programming language and why you should consider learning more.
As someone whom hasnāt worked with Pascal professionally, Iām very interested to find out more and learn from the seasoned professionals.
Many times, web developers and web designers are forced to pick up the most popular languages like PHP or Python.
These tools and languages may not be as effective as the languages created over the course of time.
Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s originally created Pascal naming the language after the famous 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
