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Re:Chez Scheme is now free by jnbiche on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:07PM (#11573653)
>OberonSystem can build the whole compiler, OS, and applications in around 3 seconds.

I'm not usually given to short, low-content comments here on HN, but:

wow!

Re:Chez Scheme is now free by iswim on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:37PM (#11574904)
Staying on the low-content theme . . . that's just how awesome Wirth et al are.
Re:Chez Scheme is now free by NotRustAgain on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @08:33PM (#11576983)
Fast compile times are cool, but I've never heard anyone say they liked programming in a language that Wirth created. The possible exception is Delphi as a Pascal derivative, but that has very little to do with wanting to program in Pascal.
Re:Chez Scheme is now free by PeCaN on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:44AM (#11578063)
Pascal was the language of choice for Windows development for quite some time even before Delphi.

Also, for what it's worth, Ada has quite a few Wirthisms and I personally quite enjoy it. But it technically isn't a Wirth language.