From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T08:01:14+09:00
Subject: Re: "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass"

On Oct 16, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On the whole though, despite his notable accomplishments such as
> designing Pascal, and popularizing interpreters using what we now call
> byte-codes. He seems to be stuck in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and
> dismisses anything which doesn't fit into his limited view which seems
> to require software designs which are  quite close to the hardware
> architectures he liked back then.
>
> He really seems to have been re-inventing Pascal ever since the first
> version, Modula and Oberon are really just slightly different Pascals.

IMO, Bertand Meyer and his colleagues are ones who have taken the  
baton from Wirth and gone forward to develop a modern, elegant, and  
fully object-oriented language from Pascal (via Ada) -- Eiffel. In  
some ways, the antithesis of Ruby, Eiffel, because it so well  
designed and because it is backed up with excellent libraries, is  
also a very satisfying language to program in.

Regards, Morton