Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>]

On 19/07/14 18:38, Simon Clubley wrote:
> However, it would need some changes (and some additions from Ada)
> to make the most of the opportunity to replace C.

All of this has been tried. However, those who could make
such a language a success are either some big semi-political
organization---and that has failed to replace C in the past.
Or it's those who are competitors in a market economy and,
therefore, unable to cooperate by definition, or at least not
in bright sunlight.

Those who have understood this simple conclusion (i.e., non-cooperation)
have started leveraging this global inability through individually
monetizing the linguistically caused state of the art: as long as
the core of the most widely used language infrastructure in embedded
system stays built on top of C, the misery that it necessarily causes
at the fingertips of ordinary programmers will need constant mending.

Which is *payed* *work*! It is therefore more important to downplay
the technical issue, or, if that course isn't taken, make sure that
every improvement (along a different course) brings with it
a sufficient supply of new problems.