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		Zababa on Oct 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nim 1.6 Interesting. No mention of Pascal or its descendants, specifically Modula 2 or 3? From what I understood, that's where Nim got its fast compilation and modules, like OCaml.

xigoi on Oct 19, 2021 [–]

If you ignore the whitespace sensitivity, Nim's syntax is actually more similar to Pascal than to Python.

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