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Re:FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation by int_19h on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @08:15PM (#12046742)
Pascal is unnecessary verbose, even in its own family. Even Modula-2, where the most prominent change that is immediately visible is that you don't have to say "begin" so many times, is noticeably better.

It's really too bad about Modula-2. It was a very nice language, comparatively speaking, and it should have been what Pascal eventually became through its dialects (notably Apple's and Borland's).

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Re:FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation by claystu on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:18AM (#12049079)
Did you ever look at Oberon?
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Re:FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation by leledumbo on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:34AM (#12049186)
It's what Pascal should have become IMHO. Base syntax: case-insensitive Oberon. Extensions: Object Pascal features. Now that's heaven. If only we don't need to maintain backward compatibility...
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Re:FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation by claystu on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:51AM (#12055088)
I wonder how hard it would be to poach the best parts of the GUI system from Lazarus and put it into a Turbo Oberon system.
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Re:FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation by int_19h on Saturday July 09, 2016 @04:51AM (#12060712)
Oberon is also nice!

Modula-2, though, has a nice trait in that it has exactly the feature set necessary for "better C", and nothing more.

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