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The whole Wirth language family tree is pretty complicated. Wirth himself designed Pascal (1970), Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon (1987), Oberon-2 (1991)
by zokier 4y ago
The whole Wirth language family tree is pretty complicated. Wirth himself designed Pascal (1970), Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon (1987), Oberon-2 (1991), and Oberon-07 (2007). Every iteration had many offshoots, surprisingly many were trying to build a business around their own version, most notably maybe Borland with TurboPascal/Delphi. Mesa/Cedar/Modula-3 is another interesting branch.
This is a topic that a book could be written about, tracing the 50 year old history
- pjmlp 4y agoIndeed, by the way, Object Pascal was born at Apple as evolution from Clascal with collaboration from Nicklaus Wirth, although many think Borland did it, due to Turbo Pascal's popularity.