50 Years of Pascal and Delphi is In Power It’s 50 years of the Pascal language and Delphi is its heir, empowering Pascal developers in today’s complex scenarios, despite being ignored by the Pascal language inventor
Niklaus Wirth published the paper The programming language Pascal in March 1971, which means it is exactly 50 years this month since the Pascal programming language was officially launched.
The renowned computer scientists celebrated the anniversary by writing a very interesting viewpoint article for Communications of the ACM (March 2021, Vol. 64 No. 3, Pages 39-41) and titled 50 Years of Pascal.
The article is fully worth reading and I suggest you to go over it before continuing with this blog post. I ll wait here. Done? OK, good, here are my comments.
C reigns supreme and Java edges Python in TIOBE s latest programming language rankings on March 8, 2021, 8:14 AM PST While the rankings were somewhat similar to February s, the company announced a number of new features to enhance the index moving forward. Image: iStock/monsitj
Each month TIOBE releases its roundup of the top programming languages, and the company recently unveiled its March rankings. The latest roundup is similar to the February rankings, however, there are nuances, surging languages and upcoming features to note.
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Top programming languages: TIOBE March 2021
As was the case in February, C again holds the top spot with a 15.33%. Runner-up Java boasts a rating of 10.45% to edge out third-place Python (10.31%). In order, C++ and C# round out the top five with ratings of 6.52% and 4.97%, respectively. Compared to February s rankings, the March top five remained unchanged.
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RAD Studio is made up of Delphi and C++Builder. On the Delphi side the Object Pascal compiler is a single pass compiler and the compiler itself is not a parallel compiler but when compiling multiple projects in parallel it was able to compile 1 billion lines of Object Pascal code in 5 minutes on the AMD Ryzen 9 5950x 16 core machine. I wanted to see if something similar was possible with C++. This post is part of our modern hardware series where we explore the massive productivity gains that can be achieved on some of the fastest CPUs available at the time of this writing in early 2021. Just how much is 1 billion lines of code? Take a look.