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Oh, not just that. It should also have been called Pascal-2 or Pascal++. It would have been a world of difference, marketing matters
by eterps 4y ago
Oh, not just that. It should also have been called Pascal-2 or Pascal++. It would have been a world of difference, marketing matters
- kjs3 4y agoThere was already a relatively popular compiler called Pascal-2 back in the day from Oregon Software. It was a heavily extended Pascal for the PDP-11 and some other contemporary platforms. I doubt that would have stopped Wirth from calling it that if he wanted to, but it was called Modula-2 instead for other reasons.