Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "Why did Wirth's languages never see widespread adoption…"
TKurtBond, on package manager, my dream is to be able to
- have lots of 'ports' that can download even this or that forgotten software from this or that university website, patch it, build it and make it available. it is possible, i need to work on it, but of course everybody is invited.
- vipack is designed to work under oberon os. for example its internal interfaces don't know about directories. there is a linux backend which opens the file and returns the descriptor, but nothing in main modules that knows about directories. it tells a function to retrieve lets say this json from the storage, and the storage is abstracted. so i hope i will be able to integrate it with oberon os.
2024-04-29 · 2 years ago
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Why did Wirth's languages never see widespread adoption besides Pascal? Even Pascal is not used much nowadays outside of Delphi and Lazarus. I tried Pascal myself and I found it to be a nice language structurally, but I also found it to be missing basic features that relate to writing the language itself (example: not being able to insert newlines into strings like you would do in C via '\n'). I also don't like how much "modern" Pascal is centered around just 2 compilers: FreePascal and...