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Re:Giving Ada a Chance by FpUser on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:25PM (#26321910)
Pascal (well Delphi/FreePascal incarnation) also works with chars and enums.

This modern pascal is very feature rich and has plenty of fancy bells and whistles.

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Re:Giving Ada a Chance by drfuchs on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:39PM (#26322106)
Wirth's original, standard Pascal allowed for int/char/bool/enum, and ranges thereof, as array bounds; it wasn't a Delphi enhancement.
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Re:Giving Ada a Chance by FpUser on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:48PM (#26322204)
I am sure it was. I am just not familiar with it hence specified the one I know.
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