> On Nov 24, 2015, at 8:30 PM, ben <bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: > > On 11/23/2015 7:28 PM, William Maddox wrote: >> >> The revived 2013 re-issue of Niklaus Wirth's Oberon system is a joy >> to behold. If you've never heard of Oberon before, it is a >> minimalistic education-oriented language and operating system >> designed after Wirth had taken a (second) sabattical at PARC in the >> 80's. > > I say WORTH LESS, with out even looking at it, as I am NOT a Pascal > FAN
Judging a language without even looking at it seems rather odd. Pascal is largely obsolete now, but I still appreciate it -- of the 40 or so languages I know, there are only two where I could go from no knowledge at all to having a working program of significant size in one week: Pascal and Python. paul