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AFAIK Niklaus Wirth didn't stop with Pascal. He also worked on Modula, Oberon, etc. Wonder why those languages didn't get industry/FOSS adoption as much as Pas
by anta40 4y ago
AFAIK Niklaus Wirth didn't stop with Pascal. He also worked on Modula, Oberon, etc.
Wonder why those languages didn't get industry/FOSS adoption as much as Pascal did?
- timbit42 4y agoI think Ada (which was based on ALGOL, Pascal and Simula) stole much of Modula-2's and Oberon's thunder. Ada was more popular than C or C++ for a couple of years in the mid to late 80's.