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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 Mod
by 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 agoI remember being impressed by Modula-3 back then. I wish it wasn't so difficult to compile the compiler.
- mhd 4y agoAh, 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 agoThis 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.