It is easy as piss to read - which makes it great for beginners and for algorithm prototyping (that you can actually compile and run).

Not much to think about - at one point the Borland tools were head and shoulders better than Microsoft's. Then MS came along and in a classic and well documented debacle, poached all of Borland's talent, copied their tools... ...and gave the world the autistic encephalitic mutant that is MFC.

Pascal was not an OO language - never claimed to be.

Some of that was addressed by Borland Object Pascal.

True - the march of science is never ending - and current language design owes much to Pascal.

I guess it would be more precise to ask what is the point of resurrecting an old language that doesn't extend current languages capabilities? One thing about Pascal.... that stuff compiles FAST!

True it would let me recompile all of my undergrad work - all of which I would have to scan/OCR or fat finger in as it is all hard copy. Not sure how the world of CS advanced without access to that corpus of cutting edge work.

That stuff was even before my time - but IIRC that was more akin to an interpreter than a VM... this was running on the PDP-11 where I went to college and I only had access to the VAX... so I cannot say for certain. However there **was** what we would these days call a just in time compiler that generated object (or something ?) code (this must be the P-Code you mention) for the interpreter so I will give you points for that as that is definitely Java like.

OMG! OWL... on Object Pascal. What a blast from the past!

I used Pascal extensively back in the day... and I really don't remember Pascal ever generating byte code, nor was there a Pascal virtual machine. Plus Pascal supports pointers, doers not have garbage collection, and is very strongly typed.

Wait... can you state again just how Pascal and Java are similar?

...these days, what's the point of yet another language?

Don't get me wrong, Pascal was the first language I did serious development in and I really like(d) it. However I am struggling to figure out what I could accomplish in Pascal that I could not accomplish in a myriad of other languages.

The "culture" you speak of many times are viewed as rural and backward in the land that they come from - hence the reason those people are leaving. But once it gets here it is "cultured" and "diverse."

For the most part it isn't the affluent who are beating down the doors to get into this country (same goes for Europe - they just have a different group of third world hicks banging at their door).

To be fair, TX is so large that the climate varies greatly, and I note that you omit fat meccas like Palmdale, Sacramento, and Barstow from your comparison.

Home is where the heart is.

Not very PC.. or maybe it is 100% PC.

...to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.

Not true - the Borg only came about because of the Screen Guild Writers strike (or whatever it was called). The villain that the Borg replaces was that weird alien queen that live inside of Remmick (Picard and Riker blew his head off then blasted open his torso graphically on network TV IIRC).

The signal it sent before being killed was to be the basis for an entire story arc, but then the writes went on strike so they whipped together the Borg from what was supposed to be a throw away episode instead.

Jesus man, 99% of Slashdotters know this. Turn in your geek card.

So much for your anti American rant. From the article:

Volkswagen uses what’s called a “Soundaktor,” a special speaker that looks like a hockey puck and plays sound files in cars such as the GTI and Beetle Turbo. Lexus worked with sound technicians at Yamaha to more loudly amplify the noise of its LFA supercar toward the driver seat.

Some, including Porsche with its “sound symposer,” have used noise-boosting tubes to crank up the engine sound inside the cabin. Others have gone further into digital territory: BMW plays a recording of its motors through the car stereos, a sample of which changes depending on the engine’s load and power.