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Ask HN: Why didn't Pascal quickly lead to a similar but less wordy language?
And note that if a language is very similar to Pascal but has more succinct syntax, you could easily create a tool to translate between the two.
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- eesmith 2y agoWirth went on to develop Modula (and Modula 2), then Oberon, as successors to Pascal. Modula-2+ was one of the key influences in Python.
- gregjor 2y agoMaybe because C came along at about the same time. I learned Pascal in the ‘70s, then discovered C. Pascal seemed limited and verbose compared to C at the time.