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On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:43:22 AM UTC-5, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> > On a more general note, one of the problems is that if you want to do hard
> > real time/bare metal/low level programming using a Wirth type language,
> > which I do, then Ada appears to be the only viable choice. I would really
> > like to find another choice as a backup option, but what I have looked at
> > so far (Modula-2, a Oberon variant, etc) appear to all be one-off ports
> > or lacking in other ways.
> 
> I don't know what to say on this. Maybe Modula-3 is worth a look? 

You might also want to look into Oberon.