Originally Posted by Matt Finley
Gordon, I think you are correct that Pascal was the programming language first used for BIAB, but I cannot offer support for that statement; it's just a long-ago memory. That made it a natural move to Delphi.

I always loved programming in Pascal - such an elegant language.
My analysis was also the logical progression to Delphi from Pascal.

I cut my teeth mostly in assembler with a little of the original Basic, i.e., before it became Comal really, but with a catchy name for beginners. I went from there to K&R C, which was a sort of grown-up assembler with a sparse but well-structured syntax. Probably due to that, I found Pascal rather verbose and never really warmed to it. I mostly programmed embedded soft real-time, though, so I guess C was also the obvious for that ... most embedded microcontrollers have C/C++, not much else is assured on everything. With modern flavours of C/C++ defensive programming is fairly easy, but not baked-in.

for non-embedded I mostly use one of several scripting languages, depending on the context.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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