Here's what Wirth wrote about it in retrospective, and yes it was explicitly des...

vajrabum on Jan 16, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

Here's what Wirth wrote about it in retrospective, and yes it was explicitly designed as a teaching language with a syntax suitable for a recursive descent one pass compiler http://youtu.be/5RyU50qbvzQ