That is the general principle that businesses operate on. They condition of their legacy stacks is usually bad, too, with lots of poorly-thought design. Some co

That is the general principle that businesses operate on. They condition of their legacy stacks is usually bad, too, with lots of poorly-thought design. Some companies such as Jane St claim hiring people who can quickly pick up unusual languages leads to staff that's better at problem-solving in general. Unlike them, the Oberon and Pascal languages were designed to be simpler than what's currently standard for educational purposes. If you know an imperative language, you should be able to learn an Oberon dialect about as fast as you can read the syntax. For a more batteries included, see the Component Pascal dialect with Blackbox: http://blackboxframework.org/index.php?cID=home,en-us http://blackboxframework.org/index.php?cID=home,en-us It had some uptake in Russia and embedded. Still a really, niche player for sure but it did. Also, Astrobe has an Oberon IDE and platform for embedded. http://astrobe.com/Oberon.htm http://astrobe.com/Oberon.htm Finally, the most industrial one with longest time would be Free Pascal with Lazarus since it's sort of a Delphi port. http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ IDE training, native libraries available, and ease of integrating C libraries are all I would be concerned about if just trying to crank out features. They'll certainly pick up the language(s) with no trouble at all.