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by pjmlp 1150 days ago
ISO Pascal isn't, but Object Pascal and Modula-2 definitly are.

Unfortunely most complaints about Pascal keep being reduced to that 1970 version of the language.
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acegopher 1150 days ago
Or the seemingly lost successor, Oberon. An entire graphical OS and compiler was written in, and completely documented, in a book: "Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler" [0]

[0] https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf

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AnimalMuppet 1150 days ago
Do you consider Modula-2 to be a Pascal?

But yes, modern stuff should not be judged by the 1970 edition. I got soured on Pascal by having to use an ISO standard compiler on an embedded system; it was painful in several areas. But I shouldn't judge modern C by pre-ANSI C, or modern C++ by cfront. So, while I still say that ISO Pascal was deeply flawed, I shouldn't hold that against all Pascal versions.

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pjmlp 1150 days ago
Nicklaus Wirth considers Modula-2 as Pascal evolution, so there is that.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1238844.1238847

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Tozen 1150 days ago
Totally agree. Various people seem to be out of touch with modern developments, misinformed, or are being disingenuous (as really advocates for a competing language). A lot of the discussions surrounding Pascal are as if Object Pascal (and its dialects), Delphi, Lazarus, or Oxygene (RemObjects) don't exist or never happened.
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