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The Pascal/Object Pascal story is quite interesting. It goes to show how important corporate backing and luck are to the popularity of programming languages.
by Tozen 4y ago
The Pascal/Object Pascal story is quite interesting. It goes to show how important corporate backing and luck are to the popularity of programming languages.
- webmobdev 4y agoIndeed. Check out its successor Oberon by the same creator. It's modern, simple and powerful. The whole language definition is just 17 pages - https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf ... and yet, no PR behind it, so it is nowhere near the popularity of even the fading Pascal.