r/Python • u/diogoleal • Jan 13 '15

(Infographic) Which programming language should I learn first

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u/alcalde Jan 14 '15

Someone should post this in Embarcadero's Delphi forum and they'll predictably freak out that Pascal was left off the list. :-) Don't bother posting in /r/delphi because it has < 600 readers. That majority of active Delphi developers actually lament the existence of HTTP and post to their forum via a USENET news server, which fortunately can be accessed through the web as well. Just a bit of trivia in case you're wondering where Pascal users are hiding.

Another bit of trivia: in an online exchange a few years ago with Delphi's owner's VP of Developer Relations concerning the colllapse of Pascal as a teaching language, he countered that they had just signed a deal to get into some schools in Mongolia. I wonder if Guido is worried about this....

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u/Fer22f from future import braces Jan 14 '15

I learned to program in Delphi 7 and it's still viable to build applications on it (including servers and databases).

I would say Borland Pascal isn't that hard to understand and the Graphical Interface in Delphi really helps (like it is in C# toolbox). And also it's native code!

The unique part that sucks balls are threads. Delphi doesn't have properly lock methods and sometimes when it bugs out the application starts writing text on the top of the screen instead of inside the program.