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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
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- From: dcollier@cix.compulink.co.uk ("David Collier")
- Subject: Re: Do any employers use Modula-2?
- Message-ID: <DLLI2I.Ivv@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: DexDyne
- References: <carvaines.1-1801961238310001@slip7-4.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 18:30:18 GMT
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- One: Modula-2 is probably the best stepping stone to ADA. As related
- elsewhere in this discussion some government agencies require ADA
- programs. I understand tat the ADA environments that exist on a Pc, are
- slow and unwieldy.
- If however you write your program in M2, it can be translated to ADA with
- little difficulty. And the clever ADA stuff you don't get to use that
- way, probably should be avoided anyway!
-
- Two: Treat Modula-2 as a "Conceptual language". If I am writing C, I
- think in Modula, but write in C. The result is clearer than going
- straight to C. There is little that you can do in C, but not in M2, and
- most of it is the stuff that makes C programs harder to read.
-
- Off hand the only things I miss in MS, compared with C, are
-
- A := B
- FOR loops including "WHILE"
-
- Think of computer languages like human languages. Every time you learn a
- new one, you learn a new way to say things, and a few new neat concepts,
- and ways to understand. But in the end, expressing the ideas in your head
- is pretty similar in most of them. And it you are dumb and tongue-tied
- in one, you wont be better in another.
-