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Oh Pascal, why couldn't we have had you instead.

• unnouinceput 6y ago
  You can, it's called Delphi.
  • cb321 6y ago
    Or Nim [1]. :-) It's hard to describe succinctly, but "Pascal meets Ada meets Python meets Lisp-like syntax macros" starts to convey it. Forget operator overloading trying to square peg-round hole whatever the operator set is - Nim has user-defined operators. And a dozen other nice things. https://nim-lang.org https://nim-lang.org
• mytec 6y ago
  "Oh Pascal" reminded me of a book titled, "Oh! Pascal!" by Doug Cooper. I used it to learn Pascal.
  • CRConrad 6y ago
    Best programming book I ever read. His later "Condensed Pascal" isn't quite as good -- a little too, well, condensed. Too bad that's the only one I could find to buy after having had to return Oh, Pascal to the city library. (OK, it's hard to compare; Code Complete and other much later stuff might be just as good. Too many decades between when I read them to say for sure.)