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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.



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