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[Avis-Mergulus]

Well they use it to teach programming at my school. I still think it would have been better to learn C#, but that was what we were taught.

Yeah, they used Pascal to teach me programming in school too. I was able to learn a few basic things with some effort. I thought programming was a bit difficult at first.
And then I went to uni, where they teach Python. And so I realized that programming isn't really hard - Pascal is just...Pascal.
Never saw anybody actually use Pascal for projects, though. I volunteer to play the game if you put it up anywhere when you're done, if you'd want to.

[Eric Blank]

Nothing is more hilarious than a big macho dude with a beer gut trying to look stern and tough while his little pekinese dog yips away like only a toy can.

[TD1]

People still use Pascal for stuff and things?

I.... Wager they do 

[i2amroy]

And then I went to uni, where they teach Python. And so I realized that programming isn't really hard - Pascal is just...Pascal.
Never saw anybody actually use Pascal for projects, though. I volunteer to play the game if you put it up anywhere when you're done, if you'd want to.

My university teaches python as well, it's one of the easiest languages to learn IMO.

[Graknorke]

I.... Wager they do 

[scrdest]

And then I went to uni, where they teach Python. And so I realized that programming isn't really hard - Pascal is just...Pascal.
Never saw anybody actually use Pascal for projects, though. I volunteer to play the game if you put it up anywhere when you're done, if you'd want to.

My university teaches python as well, it's one of the easiest languages to learn IMO.

I was about to make a 'Python bites' joke. AND I WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED IF THIS WASN'T FOR YOU MEDDLING SPELLINGS!

[Tawa]

Dinosaurs will kill us all.

[Teneb]

And then I went to uni, where they teach Python. And so I realized that programming isn't really hard - Pascal is just...Pascal.
Never saw anybody actually use Pascal for projects, though. I volunteer to play the game if you put it up anywhere when you're done, if you'd want to.

My university teaches python as well, it's one of the easiest languages to learn IMO.

The computer science course in my university also switched to python. Used to be java while I was in that course, though.
^{Java is love, Java is life}

[SquatchHammer]

Spoiler: Ride on my murder horse!!! (click to show/hide)

Just saw this today... I want one.

And then I went to uni, where they teach Python. And so I realized that programming isn't really hard - Pascal is just...Pascal.
Never saw anybody actually use Pascal for projects, though. I volunteer to play the game if you put it up anywhere when you're done, if you'd want to.

My university teaches python as well, it's one of the easiest languages to learn IMO.

The computer science course in my university also switched to python. Used to be java while I was in that course, though.
^{Java is love, Java is life}

Also, FUCK JAVA!! Fuck it in it's ear for being a piss poor excuse of a html replacement that became a "programming language". I hate it because it takes WAY TO MANY RESOURCES while running.

[i2amroy]

The computer science course in my university also switched to python. Used to be java while I was in that course, though.
^{Java is love, Java is life}

Java to me always seemed like just the wishy-washy version of C++. I mean it's like they said "lets stop people from doing this set of strange tricky things in C++!" and then removed them without actually replacing them with any way to do the things people were originally using them to do. (Though the fact that it can run on just about anything is rather nice. )

[Putnam]

...HTML replacement?

[Orange Wizard]

Javascript replacement?

...

Oh, wait...

[Arx]

I suspect they meant javascript. I mean if Java is a replacement for HTML then surely so is C?

Java might get taught partly because it seems slightly less intimidatingly low-level than C++, at least to me.

[Baffler]

Studying my cell biology, and I noticed that one of the signal pathways we need to know involves a protein called MAP3K. That stands for mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase. Its sole purpose seems to be to phosphorylate mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MAP2K), which can then in turn phospohorylates mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), which does a whole lot of things mostly related to gene expression. I'm sure there's a good reason for all of that, but the naming system really hit a wall on that one.

[scrdest]

Studying my cell biology, and I noticed that one of the signal pathways we need to know involves a protein called MAP3K. That stands for mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase. Its sole purpose seems to be to phosphorylate mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MAP2K), which can then in turn phospohorylates mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), which does a whole lot of things mostly related to gene expression. I'm sure there's a good reason for all of that, but the naming system really hit a wall on that one.

When I've been taught endocrinology last semester, it was worse - you're using the trunctated abbreviations, whereas for ours it was MAPK, MAPKK and MAPKKK. Learning there's a kinase that phosphorylates THAT would be a terrifying prospect.

The reason why it's a thing is quite possibly biologists/biochemists dicking around - after all, that's how we get the Sonic hedgehog gene, Pikachurin or the Sneaky Fuckers strategy of reproduction.