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644 points ustad | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 09:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pjmlp ◴[22 Aug 25 12:12 UTC] No.44983556[source]▶
As usual, lets revisit something that Pascal could do in 1976,

    type

    StatusCodes = (Success, Ongoing, Done)
Go in 2025,

    type StatusCodes int

    const (
        Success StatusCodes = iota
        Ongoing
        Done
    )
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thiht ◴[22 Aug 25 12:13 UTC] No.44983559[source]▶
Where's Pascal today?
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1. kragen ◴[22 Aug 25 20:17 UTC] No.44989310[source]▶
Pascal evolved into Modula-2, which Wirth then simplified into Oberon. His student Griesemer did his dissertation on extending Oberon for parallel programming on supercomputers. Concurrently, Pike found Modula-2 an inspiration for some languages he wrote in the 80s and 90s. He got together with Griesemer and Ken Thompson to rework one of those languages, Newsqueak, into Golang. So that's where Pascal is today.