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On the subject of Pascal, you really need to look at Oberon.
Niklaus Wirth continued to evolve Algol after Pascal.
Oberon is a real language, and it overcomes all of Kernighan's
objections to Pascal.  (All except the ones that have now been
put into C, like defining procedures before referencing them).

Oberon has many of the desirable traits of Limbo; compile and runtime
typechecking, garbage collection.  It compiles into native code so it
executes faster for embedded stuff (what I do).

Also, it inspired acme.  (the Oberon OS, not the language)

I hope to have Oberon running on Plan 9 someday in the distant
future.

  Brantley

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> > Why?  What use would it be?
>
> Writting software ! <G> What * use * else...

I've never found Pascal to be particularly useful
for writing software.  I understand that it was
originally intended for teaching purposes, but
there are some tasks which are so difficult to
do correctly with Pascal that you have to learn
how to program again when you start using a
real language, like C.

And then there's Basic...

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