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Re:Systems Programming in C# by Joe Duffy by pjmlp on Sunday June 19, 2016 @01:58AM (#11931967)
Because it is the spiritual successor of Oberon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Language

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Re:Systems Programming in C# by Joe Duffy by nine_k on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:47PM (#11935326)
Oberon the OS was cool, but Oberon the language is sort of too 1990s. (But I'd definitely take Modula-2 for low-level stuff instead of C any day, as I did in early 1990s.)
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Re:Systems Programming in C# by Joe Duffy by pjmlp on Monday June 20, 2016 @01:07PM (#11939364)
I agree, hence why after my initial interest in Go I eventually switched focus to other languages.

However, it doesn't change the fact that it allows for lots of low level stuff in the similar vein as Oberon, which is why I happen to take Go's side, even if I rather use other more expressive programming languages.

And to be faire, Niklaus Wirth latest language changes (Oberon-07) are even more minimalist than Go's.

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