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Re: "Why did Wirth's languages never see widespread adoption..."

In: s/pascal

TKurtBond, on package manager, my dream is to be able to

have lots of 'ports' that can download even this or that forgotten software from this or that university website, patch it, build it and make it available. it is possible, i need to work on it, but of course everybody is invited.

vipack is designed to work under oberon os. for example its internal interfaces don't know about directories. there is a linux backend which opens the file and returns the descriptor, but nothing in main modules that knows about directories. it tells a function to retrieve lets say this json from the storage, and the storage is abstracted. so i hope i will be able to integrate it with oberon os.

🐙 norayr [mod]

Apr 29 · 2 weeks ago

Original Post

🌒 s/pascal

Why did Wirth's languages never see widespread adoption besides Pascal? Even Pascal is not used much nowadays outside of Delphi and Lazarus. I tried Pascal myself and I found it to be a nice language structurally, but I also found it to be missing basic features that relate to writing the language itself (example: not being able to insert newlines into strings like you would do in C via '\n'). I also don't like how much "modern" Pascal is centered around just 2 compilers: FreePascal and...

💬 eddos · 43 comments · Apr 25 · 3 weeks ago