On 15/01/24 1:54 pm, dn wrote:
Soon after, Wirth simplified rather than expanded, and developed Pascal.
Before Pascal there was Algol-W, which Wirth invented as a rebellion against how complicated Algol 68 was becoming.
When I first saw this I was stunned, then attracted to its simplicity, but then steered-away once realised that it needed 'more' to cope with 'the outside world'.
Pascal was intended as a teaching language, and as such it was lacking in practicality in a few spots. But it didn't need much tweaking to make it a very useful language. UCSD Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc. enjoyed a lot of popularity. A variant of UCSD was the main language for Macintosh application development for a number of years. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
