Nicholas Wirth in his paper on Modula-2 about fixing the flaws in Pascal.
In planning Modula-2, I saw it as a new version of Pascal, updated to
the requirements of the time, and I seized the opportunity to correct
various mistakes in Pascal’s design, such as, for example, the syntactic
anomaly
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On Thu, May 9, 2024, 2:07 AM david barto via cctalk
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At Ken Bowles retirement from UCSD (Ken was the lead of the UCSD Pascal
Project) he related a story that IBM came to UCSD after being "rejec