On 12/09/20 12:42, Dan Stromberg wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:08 AM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
Ah .. but I don’t know if they did! The implication that Pascal folks like complexity seems strange as Pascal is far simpler than C++ (not much larger than C) and C++ is no more type safe than C (both are less type safe than Pascal). Anyway I will stop now!

I was one of the people who happily left Pascal behind to move to C.  But in retrospect, I think the computing world would've been better off with Pascal, modified slightly to allow passing variable-length arrays (like TurboPascal).

As Wirth wrote, in retrospect he should have called it Pascal-2, not Modula-2.  [COFF, COFF]

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