Pascal and related languages that include various flavours of object Pascal like Delphi and other languages like Modula-2 and Ada are there. There were probably a bunch of them in the late 1980s.
The thing is for this kind of language C/C++ won. None of the others offers any substantial advantages over C/C++ so that's what stuck.
C for systems programming and C++ for applications programming could well be the default 20 years into the future just as they were 20 years in the past.
The thing is for this kind of language C/C++ won. None of the others offers any substantial advantages over C/C++ so that's what stuck.
C for systems programming and C++ for applications programming could well be the default 20 years into the future just as they were 20 years in the past.