In article <2024Mar9.183021@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,   
   Anton Ertl  wrote:   
   >   
   >So I asked Niklaus Wirth, who has implemented this feature in Pascal,   
   >Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, and Oberon-2; I thought that, with keeping   
   >this feature for so many decades, he must have a good reason.  At   
   >first I had trouble reaching him, but he came to Vienna in January   
   >2020, and I asked him in person.  He told me that he had removed this   
   >feature from Oberon-07 (based on Oberon) in 2013, and later also   
   >answered in writing.   
      
   I find this extremely interesting. The Pascal specification is   
   clear. I'd not thought that - for me - an obscure feature as   
   closures is present in Pascal, much less that you could remove   
   this feature.   
      
   I always thought that closures are invented by lispers, because   
   in lisp you cannot write normal programs.   
      
   >- anton   
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