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by dver 1037 days ago
The quarterly Delphi posting, "We will not go quietly...."
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I get a bit of nostalgia when coding in Typescript, Kotlin, Swift.

It is a sweet revenge that most modern languages, have decided to go with the Pascal influenced approach (yes some ML as well), even most of the C++ wannabe replacements (with exception of Circle).

Maybe it could be called the 'Hejlsberg effect'. (With no disrespect to Wirth)
Yeah go is basically Pascal with C/Java syntax and first class coroutines.

What could have been.

Go has a different path, though, but Niklaus Wirth presence is still there, thanks to Oberon-2 influence, coupled with Limbo.