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Modula-3 (not designed by Wirth, but tangentially mentioned in the article) was a practical disaster. Phenomenally verbose, and with a type system implementatio
by moomin 3y ago
Modula-3 (not designed by Wirth, but tangentially mentioned in the article) was a practical disaster. Phenomenally verbose, and with a type system implementation that could easily confuse a complex class with an int.
It also had go-like structural interfaces, if that floats your boat. Pretty much everyone I knew hated working with it.
- pjmlp 3y agoI liked it, have almost all published books, and enjoy that Swift, Java and C# have taken several ideas from it, even better now that AOT is finally part of the whole package instead of commercial offerings. D as well, but nowadays they are fighting with a dwellig community.
- kragen 3y ago'fighting with a dwellig community'? i thought i spoke english but maybe i was wrong
- cjohnson318 3y agoI think it's a "dwindling" community.
- pjmlp 3y agoNot everyone is a native English speaker on the Internet, what a surprise.
- kragen 3y agoi thought i was, but this sentence is too advanced for me
- panzagl 3y agoDwellig you know, where the bandersnatch is