> > > The problem is that type #2 here covers most people, and sadly, the > ivory towers of the industry & academia do not accept that certain > languages or language features are actually widely-liked or attractive > to people because they do not fit with the prevailing wisdom. So, > although, for instance, TP & later Delphi demonstrated that the Pascal > family can be appealing, practical, and a desirable choice; and the > Oberon OS proves that the Pascal family can be used to build an > entire, practical, useful and widely-used (in its niche) OS from the > metal up. > > Let's not forget that the bulk of the Apple Lisa operating system and at least large parts of the original Macintosh system software were also implemented in Pascal (though IIRC hand-translated into 68k assembly language), which was a pretty big mainstream success for proving Pascal as suitable for developing systems software.
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