BeginEnd.net has begun, where will it end?

beginend176Last week www.beginend.net was launched with the goal of aggregating Pascal and Delphi blogs in a mobile-friendly, secure website with a minimalist UI.

The website is Pascal-Powered: the server is Delphi-compiled DWScript Sample Web server, the server-side page generation and APIs are handled by DWS and an SQLite database, and the client-side is a SmartPascal application compiled on-the-fly to JavaScript by the server.

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TIOBE isn’t the only index that needs fixing

404Worst thing in popularity is not being considered, or found.

Looks like TIOBE is not alone in differentiating Delphi and Pascal, other popularity indexes share the same issue:

More indexes I looked at didn’t show the “runners up”, only the top 5 or top 10, but they may as well have differentiated.

For lang-index, merging Pascal (rank 11) and Delphi (24), would be enough to reach rank 10, ahead of Ruby, just shy of Perl.

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Fixed TIOBE index

For some unfathomable reason, the TIOBE index distinguishes between “Pascal” and “Object Pascal”, and the “Pascal” category is seeing growth:

tiobe-pascal

So it can’t be the old classic procedural Pascal, can it? That leaves only Object Pascal dialects (FreePascal the largest, but also Oxygene and SmartPascal/DWScript). Pascal programming isn’t dead or dying.

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