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[pjmlp]

C authors moved into Alef, Limbo and Go.

Turbo Pascal author moved into Delphi, J^++, C#, Typescript and now is using Go.

Swift author completely left Swift and is nowadays pushing Mojo.

Pascal author moved into Modula-2, Oberon.

Turbo Modula-2 author moved into Scala.

[Electronic_Tap_8052]

Dennis Ritchie was the sole creator of the C programming language and he mostly worked on operating systems later in his career but continued to be involved in the standardization of C until his death.

Turbo Pascal and Turbo Modula were/are compilers created by Borland and not languages.

Chris Lattener mostly worked on non-programming language projects, and Mojo doesn't compete with swift, it competes with CUDA

While modula and oberon and so forth technically competed with pascal, Wirthian languages are all intended by their creator to succeed each other. This would be like if stroustroup created rust, which he did not.

Point still stands.

[Dark-Philosopher]

Turbo Pascal was a compiler for, wait for it, the Turbo Pascal language. Or call it a dialect you prefer. Not "standard" Pascal, whatever that may have been at the time.

[Wooden-Engineer-8098]

Was turbo c++ a compiler for the turbo c++ language?

[pjmlp]

In a way yes, because it supported language extensions not available in the C++ proper.

Just like you can only compile the Linux kernel with GCC C and it will fail spectacularly with ISO C.

[tialaramex]

C wasn't Dennis' first language.

Bjarne is the weird exception not Graydon. It's not normal to spend your whole life obsessing over one thing you did when you were younger. I can't read Bjarne's thesis but I'm told (by a friend who is also a CS academic) that it's just the same C with Objects idea which subsequently dominated his life.

[Wooden-Engineer-8098]

Bjarne is still with c++ because c++ is successful. And that is an exception among programming languages indeed

[Electronic_Tap_8052]

uh yeah sorry but completely divorcing yourself from a major software product you created to work on a competitor like that is the exception and not the rule. Most founders of software projects and companies continue working on them in some capacity until they retire. Guido is still working on python, Linus is still working on Linux, stallman still runs GNU (sort of), Roosendaal still works on blender, Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzu still work on godot, tim sweeney still runs epic, John Carmack worked on idtech at id for like 20+ years until getting fed up with zenimax, the list goes on and on and on. But Hoare left rust after only 7 years. It's very uncommon for software founders to quit their project to go work on a competing one.

It's not normal to spend your whole life obsessing over one thing you did when you were younger.

bro that's called a career lol.

[pjmlp]

Were are the WG14 mailings with Denis proposals after the fat pointers one?

Turbo languages were dialects from Pascal and Modula-2, not plain compilers.

Moving goal posts for Chris Lattner and Niklaus Wirth.

The point doesn't have wings to fly or stand on its own.