I don’t know if Niklaus Wirth (the designer of both Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon) participated in the DoD competition, but Ada was heavily inspired by t

I don’t know if Niklaus Wirth (the designer of both Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon) participated in the DoD competition, but Ada was heavily inspired by those ideas. The shame was Dr. Wirth (out of ETH in Switzerland) didn’t define enhancements to Pascal. That left vendors to plug those gaps (like Object Pascal on Mac or Borland), which made those extensions non-standard. But he wasn’t making a business out of it. He was purely academic.