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Re: pascal system

John B. Matthews wrote:

> One might argue that the Pascal language itself met "a fate similar to
> Algol". Indeed, Pascal shares some syntax with Algol. Of course, Pascal
> lives on in FPC, GNU Pascal and Delphi, as well as more recent languages
> like Ada.

Agree. Pascal was designed for teaching after all, and lacks a lot of
features you need to build larger programs. The typing system is too
constrained to build reusable code.

Most of these things were fixed in extensions over time, hence Delphi
lives on, but other languages from the era live on longer since there
was less to be fixed.

Matt