Re: [BLACKBOX] Years ahead of its time

From: [at]} <Les>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 21:54:05 +0100

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I agree entirely with Marc Martin's comment. I suspect that the
struggles to make a working Pascal compiler led Wirth to seek ways to
make constructing compilers for Modula 2 and Oberon as simple as
possible. Making the changes that Marc lists helped to do this. The
problems of entering uppercase keywords can be overcome with a good
editor, but reading programs written with uppercase keywords is more
difficult. A syntax colouring editor helps.

Les May


Marc Martin wrote:
>> And so, why is Delphi more popular than BlackBox?
>>
>
> I always figured it was because it was more backwards
> compatible with the original Pascal... and that
> programmers didn't like some of the changes, notably:
>
> uppercase keywords
> case sensitivity
> missing WRITELN, READLN, etc.
> missing enumerated types
>
> Marc
>
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