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What is the history of disappearance of GNU Pascal?
mika:
--- Quote from: marcov on December 13, 2024, 02:41:25 pm ---https://web.archive.org/web/20140714170318/http://fjf.gnu.de/gpc-future.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150908094319/http://www.g-n-u.de/pipermail/gpc/2010-July/thread.html
In a nutshell, keeping up with major version transitions of GCC was too hard. They were studying on reimplementing using a backend that wrote C, but no news about that was ever brought out.
There was some support and discussion on the maillist for the versions that were out (gcc 4 based iirc) after that period till say 2015, but after that it has been quite quiet.
The developers in that period also stated that they mostly stopped using Pascal in their daily work, which might have been the final straw.
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Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for.
MarkMLl:
--- Quote from: MarkMLl on December 13, 2024, 05:17:08 pm ---But at the same time it's curious that GNU Modula-2 has survived.
--- Quote ---Support for the language Modula-2 has been added. This includes support for the ISO/IEC 10514-1, PIM2, PIM3, PIM4 dialects together with a complete set of ISO/IEC 10514-1 and PIM libraries.
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-- https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.html
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...And now somebody's adding an ALGOL-68 frontend to GCC https://lobste.rs/s/n8pw5y/algol_68_gcc_front_end
It's going to be very interesting to see whether this gets taken relatively seriously, now that Rust has "softened people up" regarding the merits of strong type checking etc., or gets derided as "just another Pascal derivative".
MarkMLl
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