"Sometimes I wonder if the failure of languages like these - along with Ada is purely aesthetic one." Possibly part of the reason. Pascal has a very readable s

"Sometimes I wonder if the failure of languages like these - along with Ada is purely aesthetic one." Possibly part of the reason. Pascal has a very readable syntax, but for some (most?) programmers it is too "verbose" and that is enough for them to never consider it. This is probably true of any language labelled "verbose". Python and Ruby advocates probably feel these languages have found the right level of conciseness and readability. But everyone has a different opinion. Of new languages, Nim and Julia seem aiming for the same balance: not too terse, but still easy to read. Have they succeeded? I find it fascinating that C's influence on language syntax continues today with new languages (e.g. Rust, Zig) in a way that Pascal does not.