Re[3]: [fpc-other]reputation of Pascal

[Marco van de Voort]

> > Still, I personally have a feeling that modern
> Pascal 
> > is in particular suitable for building and
> maintaining 
> > a project such as an operating system. 
> > or perhaps such kind of project exists already?
> 
> 
> Well, it's not exactly Pascal, but close ...
> http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/

Modula2 (inbetween Pascal and Oberon in the Wirthian pedigree) was also
designed for systems programming.

Borland made a Turbo Modula2 for CP/M, and BPs extensions to ISO pascal are
afaik a hybrid of Modula2 and the (then draft) for Extended Pascal.