Language progress? [partially OT]

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> I can assure you that most commercial / hobbyist users of Pascal haven't 
> used the original Pascal since Moses was born.

I tried to use Pascal around 1979-1980. It's probably the most unusable language 
ever invented. Every commercial implementation of it had to have a boatload of 
extensions to make it work.

The problem was, of course, every vendor implemented a different boatload.