Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 27th Apr 2003 06:21 UTC, submitted by Joseph Childrose
XPde 0.3.5 has been released, which according to the site is a major upgrade to the XPde desktop environment and window manager. We reported on the (Pascal-written) XPde before (shots). On other X11 news, InterfaceWM 0.2.4 was recently released, XFCE 4 is getting closer to release (screenshots and one more), while the XWin.org team had another conference call last week.
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Isn't pascal taht language that is almost exclusively used in universities? Why is it any better than C++, I've ehard lots of bad things about it and no good things yet.
People who put pride in having learnt C usually bash Pascal. Personally, I think Pascal is a bit nicer towards the user. That is often reason enough for a bad reputation in the computer world. Pascal was designed at the ETH Zuerich, so it's certainly got a bit more academic roots than C (which was designed... no, thrown together by the same people who gave us the mess called UNIX). As such, it is popular as a teaching tool for structured programming. It also isn't quite as low-level as C.
Pascal isn't exclusively used in universities, though. It's quite popular in the PC world, only it has never been a high-ranking language in the UNIX world, both because that system was programmed in C, and because they come from different eras and backgrounds.