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- From: "Dr S. Hood" <simonh@liv.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Why Modula-2? was Do any employers use Modula-2?
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- Peter Moylan wrote:
- >
- > Eric W. Nikitin (enikitin@junior.wariat.org) wrote:
- > >I seriously would like an answer to this:
- >
- > >Why should someone learn Modula-2 rather than one of its
- > >'sucessors' Oberon(-2) or Modula-3?
- >
- > This gets down to a matter of personal preference.
- >
- > Modula-3 is something different. I could accept Modula-3 as
- > a genuine upgrade of Modula-2, but it's not going to go
- > anywhere unless it gets ported to lots of platforms.
- >
- > --
- > Peter Moylan peter@ee.newcastle.edu.au
- >
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- A look at the Modula-3 FAQ might be in order here --- Modula-3 is
- now available for various flavours of Unix, Windows-NT, OS/2, and
- DOS. Not sure about W95 yet, though I believe its being worked on.
- In fact the Mac is about all that is missed out.
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