Anno Siegel wrote: > I've been through Pascal, Modula2 and Oberon, and I agree. > In the short run they succeeded. For a number of years, languages of > that family were widely used, primarily in educational programming > but also in implementing large real-life systems.
With a few relaxations and extensions, you can get a surprisingly useful language out of the rigid Pascal, as evidenced by Turbo Pascal, one of the most popular (and practical) programming languages in the late 80ies / start of the 90ies. mkb. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
