In reading this blog post about Photoshop 1.0 I was surprised to learn that it was written in Pascal (Object Pascal to be exact).  But you never hear about Pascal anymore.  Why is that?
Whatever happened to Pascal?
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In a word: Fragmentation. Delphi and TurboPascal took a lot of the users and set them on their own paths. Then there's the official ISO standard (more like a couple) vs what the original author considers the standard. The mainframe crowd and the PC crowd didn't agree what was what. Nobody really wants to learn 5 different languages to get things done. One true unified language being standard helps a lot. Instead of making Pascal better, the offshoots became competitors to the original. 