358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. ta12653421 ◴[12 Oct 25 19:39 UTC] No.45561155[source]▶

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++1 for the lightspeed compiler

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