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Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada,
 Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?
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On Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 1:40:54 AM UTC+2, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Gabriele Galeotti <gabriele.g...@gmail.com> writes: 
> > In the 80s, there was P-code on the Apple II... 25 years later, Java
> > bytecode came out, exactly the same thing, a cheeky clone.
> The JVM isn't really comparable to P-code. It is a lot fancier, 
> including features for multithreading and for garbage collection.

Well, obviously they put into the thing those mandatory features, plus
25 years of technological advantages (the P-code had to run on a 64kB,
1-MHz 6502), but the base concept is nearly the same, a stack-based VM.