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Whatever happened to Pascal? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Why has C prevailed over Pascal? [closed] (10 answers) Closed 11 years ago. 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? programming-languages history […]

Why is 0 false?

Why does 0 evaluate to false and any other integer value to true is most programming languages?

Why was strict parsing not chosen for HTML?

I have often wondered why strict parsing was not chosen when creating HTML. For most of the Internet history, browsers have accepted any kind of markup and tried their best to parse it. The process degrades performance, permits people to write gibberish, and makes it difficult discontinue obsolete features.

Why was strict parsing not chosen for HTML?

I have often wondered why strict parsing was not chosen when creating HTML. For most of the Internet history, browsers have accepted any kind of markup and tried their best to parse it. The process degrades performance, permits people to write gibberish, and makes it difficult discontinue obsolete features.