I hold an old print of his Pascal language report near and dear on my.bookshelf. he bootstrapped oberon with one peer in 1-2 years. his preference for clarity

I hold an old print of his Pascal language report near and dear on my.bookshelf. he bootstrapped oberon with one peer in 1-2 years. his preference for clarity over notational fancyness inspired so many of us. the Pascal family of languages are not only syntactically unambiguous to the compiler they are also clear and unambiguous to humans. can. the Carbon successor to c++ strives for the same iirc.