[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-01-21, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> Wirth went from Algol W to Pascal to Modula-2 to Oberon.
>

There was also Modula-3, which DEC was directly involved in designing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

> But neither Modula-2 nor Oberon caught on.
>
> (I always thought that Modula-2 had great potential, but
> the world went curly braces)
>

One of the annoying things about the Modula-* and Oberon range for me
are the upper case keywords.

DEC was also involved in designing its own Wirth style language BTW
which was called Pillar and would have been used on PRISM systems.

Simon.

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