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Glad to hear FPC is still well alive and kicking. BTW, AFAIK Wirth's work is not limited to Pascal (there are Oberon and Modula, for example). Wonder why those
by anta40 11y ago
Glad to hear FPC is still well alive and kicking.
BTW, AFAIK Wirth's work is not limited to Pascal (there are Oberon and Modula, for example). Wonder why those languages don't gain as much exposure as Pascal does?
- mhd 11y agoIt's not like Pascal has an insane amount of exposure, I fail to remember any news here that wasn't about a new FPC/Lazarus release. Whereas the Oberon/Modula compiler space seems pretty defunct. And sadly, the same is true for Modula-3, the language that could've been a better Java/C#... The only other language from the family that one reads about here (very) occasionally is Ada. Unless one counts Go as some kind of Algol68-Ratfor.
- pjmlp 11y agoWirth has never been good at marketing. He wrote an article about the state of software engineering. Basically his expectation was that people cared about quality and safety and thus they would appreciate those languages. However since the majority just hack something together without regard for quality, only a few cared to jump into his vision.