From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Subject: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:25:17 -0500
Date: 2014-07-16T07:25:17-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lq5qv9$hhk$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
The first language I really liked was Pascal.
But the Pascal family of languages (including Ada) have
clearly failed to become popular, at least compared
to the C-family (C, C++, C#, ....)
The question is why did this happen?
My theory: C was used to develop Unix/Linux and
Windows, and this made it easier for applications
to be written in C/C++ since the interface to the OS
was easier. VMS did not choose C (considered a huge
blunder by many. They choose Bliss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS instead! and we
all know what happens to VMS.
What is your theory on this? Was there another
reason or set of reasons?
Can we all blame this success of the C family of
languages on Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan
brilliance and it being used for Unix?
--Nasser
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2014-07-16 12:25 Nasser M. Abbasi [this message]
2014-07-16 16:55 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? Luke A. Guest
2014-07-16 17:40 ` john
2014-07-16 17:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-16 19:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 11:53 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Luke A. Guest
2014-07-17 17:06 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-16 20:52 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, " Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-16 19:22 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Wright
2014-07-16 19:52 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 2:14 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-17 5:29 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, anon
2014-07-17 12:24 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Dan'l Miller
2014-07-22 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-22 0:59 ` pincerfae
2014-07-22 14:41 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Dan'l Miller
2014-07-22 21:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-16 17:41 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? Adam Beneschan
2014-07-16 23:06 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Clubley
2014-07-16 22:10 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " torralbaduran
2014-07-17 11:08 ` Harvey White
2014-07-17 12:04 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Clubley
2014-07-17 12:11 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " Simon Clubley
2014-07-17 12:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-18 2:17 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-07-18 6:53 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Wright
2014-07-17 21:37 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " leonid.dulman
2014-07-17 22:25 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-17 23:50 ` Shark8
2014-07-18 1:00 ` Lucretia
2014-07-18 8:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-18 15:35 ` Presentation for the Ada-Europe conference (Was: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-07-19 9:10 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? Pascal Obry
2014-07-18 11:09 ` leonid.dulman
2014-07-18 18:08 ` isaac1.0
2014-07-18 19:04 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-21 23:09 ` isaac1.0
2014-07-19 14:03 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-07-19 12:17 ` jm.tarrasa
2014-07-19 14:12 ` gvdschoot
2014-07-19 14:26 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Clubley
2014-07-19 14:35 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " gvdschoot
2014-07-19 16:38 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-19 17:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-19 14:56 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-19 15:20 ` gvdschoot
2014-07-19 17:56 ` Per Sandberg
2014-07-20 19:40 ` pincerfae
2014-07-20 22:30 ` Shark8
2014-07-20 22:51 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-20 23:11 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, " Shark8
2014-07-20 23:21 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, " Dan'l Miller
2014-07-21 1:42 ` Shark8
2014-07-21 4:57 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-21 6:51 ` Shark8
2014-07-21 18:01 ` pincerfae
2014-07-20 23:18 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-21 1:16 ` Shark8
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