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It's very similar to Go. And like go, it's loved by people who don't know ALGOLs and hated otherwise.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
It's very similar to Go.
And like go, it's loved by people who don't know ALGOLs and hated otherwise.
- amyjess 7y agoThat's definitely an uncommon comparison. Go is basically Oberon with C-ish syntax, and Oberon is probably the Wirthiest of Wirth languages, basically everything Wirth thought was good distilled into a single language. And given that Wirth's whole family tree of languages exists because he objected to Algol 68 so hard he walked out on Algol...
- kick 7y agoIt's a pretty common comparison, actually. I think the first "big" article on Go was one comparing Go to ALGOL-68. http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/ http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
- pjmlp 7y agoOberon-2 merged with Limbo to be more precise, actually. Although Oberon not only had Oberon-2 as successor, it had Active Oberon, Oberon.NET, Zonnon, Component Pascal and Oberon-07, the later with multiple revisions.