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> There are maybe fifty world class computer language designers on the planet. Anders is the only one of them who built Turbo Pascal and Delphi. The Pascal _sy
by _pmf_ 14y ago
> There are maybe fifty world class computer language designers on the planet. Anders is the only one of them who built Turbo Pascal and Delphi.
The Pascal _syntax_ was designed by Niklaus Wirth.
> It is thanks to Anders' expert guidance that .NET started out such a remarkably well designed language
.NET is not a language.
- octo_t 14y agosyntax is not the only thing behind language design. at all. the semantics of a language are equally (if not more) important. you also need to recognise the importance of a good compiler, one which gives good error messages and optimises your code.
- jablan 14y agoTurboPascal departed a lot from standard Pascal syntax, especially in very popular versions 5.5 and 6. IIRC, standard Pascal didn't even support modularity (importing symbols from other files). Pascal was mostly academia language, suitable for learning imperative programming (Wirth later designed Modula-2, which was capable for industry). TP 5.5 introduced OO, pretty much what we see as Java-style mainstream these days. Also, the IDE itself was incredibly nice to work with. Not to mention Delphi.
- pjmlp 14y agoActually the syntax comes from Algol, but Wirth was also part of the design team.
- nollidge 14y ago> .NET is not a language. It may as well be. VB.net and C# are the only .NET languages that have any traction, and the differences between them are almost entirely superficial. Off the top of my head, the only significant difference is that VB.net supports inline XML.