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Ken Thompson on Pascal (lysator.liu.se)
3 points by vyodaiken 1812 days ago
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A lot of these things have long since been addressed in the last 40 years. Delphi (https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi) and Free Pascal (https://www.freepascal.org/) are the major Pascal implementations.
The most interesting thing is that his critique of Pascal type rigidity applies to C Standard C, which is very different from C.