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I wonder if the name changes (Pacsal -> Modula -> Oberon) did damage to people’s perception in the 80s and 90s. Maybe they thought it was in decline when in rea
by guidoism 5y ago
I wonder if the name changes (Pacsal -> Modula -> Oberon) did damage to people’s perception in the 80s and 90s. Maybe they thought it was in decline when in reality the name just changed?
- zozbot234 5y agoThere were other changes in Wirth's languages besides the name; they were not clean extensions. Wirth even went back and forth on support for a few basic language constructs, perhaps unsure whether to go for a 'truly minimalistic' feature set or something a bit more ergonomic.
- ncmncm 5y agoThey were all substantially different languages. Pascal itself did decline, and its user community splintered off to various niche languages AND to portable C. C ended up with the biggest user population, and here we are.