Ratio of VC/C & VB

Do you think that Pascal language could still be as popular as VB/VC/C++ today had computer language developers maintained the name Pascal, instead of renaming it Modula, Delphi, etc?

Look at VB – from GW-, Turbo-, Q-, Quick, and now Visual- -- they maintained the name Basic, despite that the language is actually far from the constructs of the original Basic. Same as the ‘C’ language to VC++, though, maintaining very well the constructs of the original C.

Modula and Delphi is still very much an original Pascal constructs (except the objects).

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Originally posted by souldog
What's wrong with being lazy and fat?

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I can't run faster:D , so I have to be more responsible:)

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Originally posted by aio
I can't run faster:D , so I have to be more responsible:)

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I never thought of it that way:D

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Originally posted by aio
Do you think that Pascal language could still be as popular as VB/VC/C++ today had computer language developers maintained the name Pascal, instead of renaming it Modula, Delphi, etc?

Look at VB – from GW-, Turbo-, Q-, Quick, and now Visual- -- they maintained the name Basic, despite that the language is actually far from the constructs of the original Basic. Same as the ‘C’ language to VC++, though, maintaining very well the constructs of the original C.

Modula and Delphi is still very much an original Pascal constructs (except the objects).

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Lots of people use delphi! and it's really easy to make data base (SQL, access) programs with it.

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Originally posted by SeventhStar
Lots of people use delphi! and it's really easy to make data base (SQL, access) programs with it.

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I don't know in other places, but in my place, VB usage probably outnumbers Delphi by 10 to 1, unlike in the early QuickBasic-Turbo Pascal days where QuickBasic only slightly ahead.

Sometimes, I am tempted to tinker with Delphi, but since 2 years ago, I now seldom do full programming, so I never really tried it as much as I have used Pascal long ago. Most of my programming chores right now involves only extracting from existing databases and pass to users in the manner of easy-to-use "report writer" which I can easily do with mainly Excel-VBA.

By the way, who knows Lotus123 this days? What's the language it is using now in its Macro? I used to work in that yucky language. The syntax is something like (to create a new worksheet) ...

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/wn
/fs"c:\mydir\myfile.wk1"{enter}

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This is also the language of Excel Macro from version 1 to version 3 I think.

I think vb is for people who can't code in C++ :wave: