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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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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?
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:26:12 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-07-19, gvdschoot@gmail.com <gvdschoot@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My "choice" for simplicity would be Oberon, because it solves *all* issues
> with C, without adding functionality. The problem with Ada is that it is obese
> and requires a big compiler, like C++.

You would need an Oberon compiler which supported all the platforms
and targets the C language library you wish to replace does before
that would be viable. That would actually be rather easier to achieve
with Oberon than Ada however.

I would also import some basic syntax/semantic elements from Ada into
Oberon as well.

I would also lose the uppercase keywords currently required in Oberon
as I think they detract from program readability instead of enhancing
it.

Simon.

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