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- From: r.barton8@genie.com (Robert L Barton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Why Modula-2
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 16:10:17 GMT
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- Why Modula-2 rather than Oberon or Modula-3?
- Oberon has a couple points which would have been nice
- to incorporate into ISO M-2 (using a hex number with
- suffix X for characters rather than octal with suffix B,
- and allowing POINTER TO ARRAY OF CHAR). But apart from that
- Oberon is an inferior notation and a real step backwards.
- Modula-3 on the other hand improves on both M-2 and Oberon.
- The format for numeric constants is much nicer (even C has a
- better system here than M-2 and Oberon). But as mentioned, M-2
- is much more widely available than M-3. Modula-2 also has an
- ISO standard, although it has major problems in the area of I/O,
- so people are continuing to use their old PIM modules until the
- situation is fixed with a revised standard.
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