Wirth's article also "ignores" Ada. But that's fine, the article is a personal account, not a survey of all Pascal family languages. The penultimate sentence:

Wirth's article also "ignores" Ada. But that's fine, the article is a personal account, not a survey of all Pascal family languages. The penultimate sentence: "The sequence Pascal—Modula—Oberon is witness to my attempts to achieve [perfection]."