D

[Walter Bright]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Tony (tonytech08 at gmail.com)'s article
>> Is D today's PASCAL?
>> Tony
> 
> No.  D is not a bondage-and-discipline language.

It's interesting that every successful implementation of Pascal had to 
add a lot of extensions and escapes to Pascal's overly restrictive 
semantics. Since every implementation did a different set, Pascal was 
balkanized into a slew of vendor-specific languages. There was no 
portability. The portability of C++ buried Pascal.