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That's definitely an uncommon comparison. Go is basically Oberon with C-ish syntax, and Oberon is probably the Wirthiest of Wirth languages, basically everythi
by amyjess 7y ago
That'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.