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> in what way do you consider Swift a Wirth-influenced language? It looks to me you misunderstood the post.
by acqq 11y ago
> in what way do you consider Swift a Wirth-influenced language?
It looks to me you misunderstood the post.
- lobster_johnson 11y agoHow so? He wrote: "As someone that [...] has always been a fan for Wirth influenced languages, Swift [is in a better position]." Why is the sentence premised on Wirth, if it's unrelated to Swift?
- pjmlp 11y agoBecause Wirth designed/influenced languages for system programming that I consider better than C. Algol, Mesa, Object Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Oberon-07, Ada All of them were used to write full operating systems for a few years. However, except for Ada, all of them suffered from not being adopted by OS vendors that were able to deliver mainstream OS, as mainstream OS vendors adopted C to replace Assembly (Object Pascal on Apple's case) and eventually C++.