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by pjmlp 2985 days ago
Additionally, OCaml, SML, Free Pascal, Delphi, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Basic, Common Lisp, Scheme, Java (yes all commercial JDKs do support it and on Android 5+), Clipper, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Dart 2.0, Swift, MLton.

It just happened that with widespread adoption of C and C++, many devs lost sight of alternatives.
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nostalgeek 2984 days ago
You are ignoring Ada. In fact most problems with the Go languages are solved in Ada(tasks vs goroutines and channels, generics vs interface {}, synchronized data structures, variants type vs runtime plumbing to create unions...).
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pjmlp 2984 days ago
No I am not, remark the Additionally at the beginning of the setence and eesmith's comment already mentioning Ada with the same time as mine.

Ada is one of my favourite languages.

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