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Re:Rust vs. Go by kazinator on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:04PM (#13430756)
The Wirth languages saw fairly widespread use once.
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Re:Rust vs. Go by Turing_Machine on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:21PM (#13430915)
Modula-2 had some uptake, but never to the extent of C or Fortran.

Pascal was popular for teaching at one time, but pure Pascal was never very popular for writing shipping code. If I'm not mistaken, Borland's Turbo Pascal, which was pretty popular, became so by adding non-standard features that probably gave Professor Wirth a heart attack when he heard about them.

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Re:Rust vs. Go by kazinator on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:26AM (#13434926)
C and C++ are also popular by adding non-standard features. Such as, oh, your entire Win32 API, POSIX, and so on: every system's low-level API's, middleware and other stuff.
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Re:Rust vs. Go by Turing_Machine on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:12PM (#13451542)
Libraries and the base language syntax (and semantics) are two different things.
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Re:Rust vs. Go by empthought on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:26PM (#13432723)
Delphi is Pascal and was used for tons of things.

- Dreamweaver

- Skype

- TOAD for Oracle

- TeamSpeak

Etc.

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