Niklaus Wirth lives! Here's an amazing interview from 2018 about programming language principles and history. (It makes me hope Carmack is still giving impromptu talks when 2054 rolls around.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUgrS_KbSI8 …
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Interesting opinion, I still remember Turbo Pascal 5.5 with OOP, I think it was a great step. Do you remember Smalltalk-80 ?, you have read the book language and its implementation, quite interesting.
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I read a lot about Smalltalk after releasing UnrealScript, and spent a couple of years lost in metaclass notions before realizing it was all voodoo.
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Unfortunately I fear that a Wirth language without Wirth wouldn’t stay simple for long. So all you’d get is the syntax in the end.. and something that looks like Ada or C++ complexity wise. Counter example today might be Go
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My thought experiment is: What would a Wirth language look like if it sought to have a type system scaling all the way to hygienic macros and dependent typed proofs-as-programs? Probably like Lean but with a Pascal veneer, still remarkably simple.
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For almost 30 years I use Pascal for different project types, never had a feeling I miss anything.
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