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pjmlp on Sept 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why undefined behavior may call a never-called fun...

I would have been happy with Modula-2, Ada or Object Pascal as basis.

But better yet would have been Modula-3 or Active Oberon.

iainmerrick on Sept 25, 2017 [–]

I hear very good things about Ada, aside from its unfriendly old-fashioned syntax.

pjmlp on Sept 25, 2017 | [–]

Some of us do enjoy verbose explicit syntax instead of hieroglyphs. :)

Quite helpful when maintaining unknown code in big corp projects.

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