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by devman 3911 days ago
CLU was way ahead of most of the mainstream languages of 80s. I remember that coding the compiler for generics and Pascal-like unit system I added on top of the standard spec was quite fun! I was compiling generics to an intermediate language opcode and then generating the machine language during the linking phase. Oh, those good old days!
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I was being sarcastic.

There are so many powerful languages since the late 60's on the mainframe systems and yet we got what we got.