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However, Wirth himself realized the problems of Pascal and his later languages are basically improved versions of Pascal -- Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon. But th
by jhbadger 3y ago
However, Wirth himself realized the problems of Pascal and his later languages are basically improved versions of Pascal -- Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon. But these languages didn't even really displace Pascal itself let alone C -- but maybe if he had named them in a way that made it clear to outsiders that these were Pascal improvements they would have had more uptake.
- pjmlp 3y agoObject Pascal got most of those improvements, hence why it was hard for them to be adopted, maybe if a big OS vendor had picked them instead of C++, or later Java it would have helped. At least we have some of Oberon ideas living on Go, which despite my usual rants, is preferable to plain C.