[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-03, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> The "smaller" language family tree <http://www.levenez.com/lang/>, with 
> links from there to a larger listing of languages.
>

Some interesting links there. Thanks.

>
> If you're working on a large application or an operating system, you're 
> going to be looking at immediate and long-term staff availability and 
> retention and staffing costs, at the trend and the likelihood the 
> language will be common in ten years or whatever horizon you've 
> established, and at whether the language is reasonably suited for the 
> task.  For system programming work, C or subset C++ is still a very 
> common choice.
>

Even if C style languages are dominant in the workplace, then exposing
students to Wirth style languages in university will still give them a
more rounded background.

Simon.

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