Best aspects of C

Re:Best aspects of C by loup-vaillant on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:02AM (#25135844)

The "impossible" has been done: http://www.projectoberon.com/

Not sure about the memory allocator, Oberon may have avoided the problem by having a GC.

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Re:Best aspects of C by randomNumber7 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:57PM (#25141655)

This is a nice article about the shortcomings of pascal. I don't know oberon so maybe it changed a bit.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pasc...

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Re:Best aspects of C by int_19h on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:13PM (#25153822)

This article talks about Wirth's Pascal as originally defined. But various language dialects evolved way beyond that, and some of them became effectively dominant.

Here's what low-level programming in Pascal looked like on DOS: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/TSR/0022.PAS.html

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Re:Best aspects of C by loup-vaillant on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:57PM (#25143747)

Thanks for the link, I'll go take a look. I'm pretty sure Oberon addressed some of the pitfalls cited there, if only so Wirth could write an OS with it. Not every language is OS worthy, after all.

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