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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:03:13 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

> When I went to uni in the 70s, the computer science lecturer had a
> hard-on for Pascal, the latest and greatest. Always slipped in snide
> remarks about BASIC or COBOL in most classes.

Better Pascal than Modula/Modula-2.  I swear as soon as anybody figured 
out how to do anything useful with one of his languages Wirth designed a 
new, more obscure version.

https://www.modula2.org/tutor/chapter8.php

Chapter 8 - Input/Output
In preparation

That sums it up. I've heard Wirth's languages described as programs that 
are designed to tell secrets to themselves.