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How I wish people understood this when we were comparing Ada, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Pascal dialects, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Component Pascal,... to C.

Apparently we were the fools.

But this will never happen in UNIX OSes.

The culture is married to C, regardless how many memory corruption exploits per days might get a CVE entry.

However I hope to be proven wrong.




The syntax is killing these languages. Sure it's superficial, but programmers are human beings and I doubt most people find it appealing to voluntary stare at and type PROCEDURE BEGIN END and other LONGCAPITALIZEDWORDS...


Most programmer friendly editors for those languages supported formatting as you type, gofmt isn't the first of its kind.

Also it makes very easy to recognize reserved keywords.


BEGIN COMMENT No matter what editor does, programmer still has to look at this ugliness. :D END


Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. :)




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