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On Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:29:22 UTC, Simon Clubley  wrote:
> On 2018-01-24, Lucretia <me@somewhere.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:06:52 UTC, Simon Clubley  wrote:
> >
> > I based on Oberon, the syntax needs to be massaged to take away the
> > Wirthianisms that are just horrible. i.e. Uppercase keywords, ; or . and being
> > optional or not, begin...end everywhere adding bulk.
> >
> 
> I think of Oberon as being a really good idea but which is strangled by
> some horrible syntax features. The mandatory uppercase keywords is the
> number one feature that I dislike about Oberon - it makes Oberon code
> look really ugly.

As I said above, keywords, begin...end in conditionals/loops, ; and . used where he likes.
 
> > As was pointed out in that reddit thread, just look at the targets supported
> > by Lazarus.
> >
> 
> Lazarus is just the IDE on top of Free Pascal. You can use Free Pascal
> without needing Lazarus.

I know, but most people just call fpc by the Lazarus name.