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This was going to be the next Pascal... back when Pascal was a thing. I do remember chatting with some Borland folks about how they would be supporting it (Turb

This was going to be the next Pascal... back when Pascal was a thing. I do remember chatting with some Borland folks about how they would be supporting it (Turbo Oberon?), but they weren't really very enthusiastic about it. Of course, that was early 90s and they were still shipping floppies, so... (edit: didn't remember the year, so left it as a range)

mhd 4y ago
You're missing one step here, as the "next Pascal" was Oberon's predecessor Modula-2. For which there were some 8/16-bit compilers around, including a Turbo Modula-2. Didn't seem to work out back than for a few reasons, one probably simply being that "Pascal" had a certain name recognition. Also, OO was coming around which Modula-2 didn't have, and by the time Oberon was invented, Object Pacal was already a thing.
- gtirloni 4y ago
  I remember being impressed by Modula-3 back then. I wish it wasn't so difficult to compile the compiler.
  - mhd 4y ago
    Ah, Modula-3, one of my perennial favorites. Definitely a different continuation of Modula-2 than Wirth's own Oberon. Agree on the tooling issues. If it would've "sold" better, so many languages of the last two decades could've been avoided.
    - pjmlp 4y ago
      This is one of those,I wish D would take more inspiration from, instead Nim, Swift, C# (with post v7 improvements) seem to be the ones more closer to it, in language design for systems programming with GC.