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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-04, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at mac.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> 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?

It's not just that; all of the Wirth style languages tend to have a
similar syntax style and similar ways of doing things. It's a way of
doing things which I happen to like.

Simon.

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