I loved writing Pascal and Modula-2 at the time, and using both for a while sure made me a better programmer. Pascal was an excellent educational tool, but for a decade had enormous business impact, too.
Most criticized things regarding Pascal e.g.
<a href="https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pascal.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pas...
were already fixed by extension or coukd be fixed easily.
Its slight verbosity - somewhere between C and COBOL - arguably was a pro rather than a con.
Today, Ada and Julia seem to be the langages alive that resemble Pascal the most.
jll29 · · focus · HN ↗
Most criticized things regarding Pascal e.g. <a href="https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pascal.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pas... were already fixed by extension or coukd be fixed easily.
Its slight verbosity - somewhere between C and COBOL - arguably was a pro rather than a con.
Today, Ada and Julia seem to be the langages alive that resemble Pascal the most.
kjs3 · · focus · HN ↗