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I also prefer the minimalist approach to language design and even though I like Pascal, the modern incarnation of the language in FreePascal is simply too large

I also prefer the minimalist approach to language design and even though I like Pascal, the modern incarnation of the language in FreePascal is simply too large. I feel the same about many popular languages. Perhaps it's inevitable as developers demand more features and the language accrues more features with each release. Even languages that start small(ish) over time grow to be quite large (e.g. Python).

SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago
> I also prefer the minimalist approach to language design and even though I like Pascal, the modern incarnation of the language in FreePascal is simply too large. Then don't look at c# version 9. There's an expressive and modern (immutable and null safe by default) language somewhere in there struggling under the weight of previous syntax and semantics.