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I still wonder what the tech world would’ve been like today if Wirth had had the marketing sense to call Modula “Pascal 2”

• sedatk 3y ago
  …also if he hadn’t insisted on uppercase keywords.
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    That wasn't the issue many make it up to be, thanks to programmer editors. We already had autoformatting tools in the early 1990's, Go did not invent them.
    • sedatk 3y ago
      But we also had syntax highlighting in the early 90's, so, using uppercase to denote language elements was already an archaic approach that hurt readability.