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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by lordgroff on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:46PM (#26349585)
Oh Pascal, why couldn't we have had you instead.
Re:Git's list of banned C functions by mytec on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:06PM (#26351030)
"Oh Pascal" reminded me of a book titled, "Oh! Pascal!" by Doug Cooper. I used it to learn Pascal.
Re:Git's list of banned C functions by CRConrad on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:53AM (#26358989)
Best programming book I ever read. His later "Condensed Pascal" isn't quite as good -- a little too, well, condensed. Too bad that's the only one I could find to buy after having had to return Oh, Pascal to the city library.

(OK, it's hard to compare; Code Complete and other much later stuff might be just as good. Too many decades between when I read them to say for sure.)

Re:Git's list of banned C functions by unnouinceput on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:34PM (#26350061)
You can, it's called Delphi.
Re:Git's list of banned C functions by cb321 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:02PM (#26350347)
Or Nim [1]. :-) It's hard to describe succinctly, but "Pascal meets Ada meets Python meets Lisp-like syntax macros" starts to convey it. Forget operator overloading trying to square peg-round hole whatever the operator set is - Nim has user-defined operators. And a dozen other nice things.

https://nim-lang.org