358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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Havoc ◴[12 Oct 25 09:40 UTC] No.45556825[source]▶

Pascal/Delphi - especially in the educational context.

Crazy fast compiler so doesn't frustrate trial & erroring students, decent type system without the wildness of say rust and all the basic programming building blocks you want students to grasp are present without language specific funkiness.

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1. eloisant ◴[12 Oct 25 14:38 UTC] No.45558541[source]▶

>>45556825 #

Apparently Python is now the language of choice for teaching programming, and I'm a bit worried about it because the type system is a mess.

I think Pascal or ADA are better language to start learning about types with a good base.

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