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by iswim 3709 days ago
Staying on the low-content theme . . . that's just how awesome Wirth et al are.
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NotRustAgain 3708 days ago
Fast compile times are cool, but I've never heard anyone say they liked programming in a language that Wirth created. The possible exception is Delphi as a Pascal derivative, but that has very little to do with wanting to program in Pascal.
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PeCaN 3708 days ago
Pascal was the language of choice for Windows development for quite some time even before Delphi.

Also, for what it's worth, Ada has quite a few Wirthisms and I personally quite enjoy it. But it technically isn't a Wirth language.

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