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Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language (1981) [pdf]

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71 points susam | 1 comments | 13 Apr 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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hulium ◴[13 Apr 25 17:31 UTC] No.43674382[source]▶
I think almost all of those criticisms are solved in newer versions of Pascal.
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1. pjmlp ◴[13 Apr 25 17:45 UTC] No.43674496[source]▶
Even in Modula-2, 1978, exactly because Niklaus Wirth was the very first to acknowledge the limitations of the original Pascal, designed as a programming language for teaching purposes.

Yes, most Pascal dialects, namely UCSD Pascal and Object Pascal also got around fixing them, as did ISO Extended Pascal, the follow up revision that was largely ignored, because by then it was all about Object Pascal.