Re: Which comes first, languages or compilers?

From	"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Which comes first, languages or compilers?
Date	2023-10-30 20:35 +0000
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<23-10-014@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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On 30/10/2023 03:26, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> On 10/27/23 5:57 PM, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>
>> I don't really consider any of Wirth's languages to be designed as
>> they would not have the gaping big holes they have.
>
> The *languages* are all well designed,

That's not what the Oakwood guidelines say.

system *libraries* are incomplete
> or missing.

Yes.
[I'd prefer not to refight 30 year old arguments about language design details here.
At this point Oberon is purely of historical interest and Pascal is close to dead. -John]

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