alt Hacker NewsTraditionally I would say it feels more like Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal.
And if making reference counting part of the picture, Cedar, Modula-2+,...
Finally catching up with what we already had in the 1990's and lost, in a couple of decades split between C, C++ and VM based languages.
> Traditionally I would say it feels more like Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal.
Well, that's from the Objective C history; and Objective C borrows a lot from those languages.
The thing is, once you're doing systems programming, it's unlikely you're going to call any Objective C APIs, or APIs that have an Objective C history. You're more likely to call something in C.