> what kid growing up in the 80s would go out of their way to purchase a Pascal compiler and learn an academically oriented language
I learned Pascal on my Atari ST as a 18yo. I had already done commercial games for years in assembly for the ZX Spectrum and had learned m68k, but writing GUI programs for the ST in assembly seemed very annoying. Purchasing the compiler, though... was not really what happened.
I learned Pascal on my Atari ST as a 18yo. I had already done commercial games for years in assembly for the ZX Spectrum and had learned m68k, but writing GUI programs for the ST in assembly seemed very annoying. Purchasing the compiler, though... was not really what happened.