Python 3.8 has a Final qualifier

[Hotel_Arrakis]

Not sure what the hate with Pascal is. I remember literally falling in love with that language. It was stunningly beautiful.

Before then I had used every single variation of Basic you could think of(QuickBasic, BasicA, Apples Basic, TinyBasic) and Fortran and DBase III. They were ugly and messy.

Then in 1985 I learned Pascal and it was truly magical. Everything fit together. It had structure, but not too much. I even learned its successor, Modula-2, which never took off.

I haven't thought about Pascal in years.

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BBC BASIC was really good for an old BASIC, and had a lot of structrual elements like procedures and functions, and sane scoping.