akarl wrote:
> Why bother with Pascal when we have better and more recent languages
> such as Oberon (and Modula)?
Several reasons actually.
1. Compatibility. If you were a Wirth fan you would have replaced your
entire language every 10 years [A].
2. Equivalence. Pascal has been updated to have everything Oberon and
modula have, and be backwards compatible.
3. Do***entation and standards. Pascal was standardized, which neither
Oberon nor Modula were, and many, many books and papers exist on
Pascal.
4. User base. There are still many times the number of users of Pascal
than those languages.
5. Code base. There is a huge body of code in existence for Pascal.
[A] Yes, every 10 years:
1969 Wirth designs Pascal
1975 Wirth designs Modula
1989 Wirth designs Oberon
1999 Wirth retires !
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