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

[Craig A. Berry]

In article <kjkbm1$chg$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

> On 2013-04-04, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at mac.com.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know whether you would consider it 
> > "Wirth-style," whatever that means,
> 
> Wow. I didn't see _that_ one coming. :-)
> 
> (At least from the types of people who post to comp.os.vms; I just
> implictly assumed it was standard knowledge here without even thinking
> about it.)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth

I know who Niklaus Wirth was and I've been doing various kinds of 
structured programming in assorted languages for 30 years, and I had 
just reread that very Wikipedia article before posting in case it gave 
me any clue as to what you were talking about.  It didn't.  If you mean 
that a language has type safety and subroutines, why not just say so?