Comment by keyle
2 days ago
Funnily enough, wend looks like what fun programming means to me. C like (prefixed types) syntax, strongly typed but without heartaches of pointers, and simple types.
Every features on top of that has either leaky abstractions and/or nightmare scenarios.
That said I'm not claiming the world should run on this type of code. Or should it.
I think OP is just trying to demystify the complexity of compliers for the sake of an educational resource. It's high quality work, compressed to a very small line count
Well, Python and Pascal were designed as a teaching language, and ended up being remarkably good for actual programming.
I didn't know this regarding Pascal, do you have any source ref on this?
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Also Basic, wasn’t it?