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- From: mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Mark Morgan Lloyd ")
- Subject: Re: Usage of Modula2 In the world
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- Organization: KDG Mobrey Telemetry
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- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 20:23:02 GMT
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- > Hi, the first time in my life I got into contact with the lang Modula2
- > was when we got it as a 'first-time-into-contact-with-programming' in
- > my school. Since I have never heard of the lang before, I wonder,
- > - what is the language used for, worldwide ?
- > - is it used a lot ?
- > - is there still life in the lang ?
- > - in which country ... ?
- >
- > Since this is a forum specially about it, I am very anciously awaiting
- > responses.
- >
- > Thanks for your attention
- >
-
- Modula-2 still appears to be highly regarded as a teaching language, and
- one only has to look around to see the extent to which other languages
- have adopted ideas which, whilst not necessarily first propounded in
- Modula-2, were certainly brought to peoples' attention by it.
-
- There also appears to be a coterie of Modula-2 programmers in industry,
- in fact it may be fair to say that it's a "poor-man's Ada"- Ada could to
- a large extent be viewed as a parallel design effort (by committee) which
- addressed many of the same problems.
-
- As for the area in which it is best known, I suppose that I have to say
- North-Eastern Europe. However, even there alternatives such as C++ (and,
- dare I say it, Visual Basic) are in the ascendant, together with
- languages derived from Modula-2 such as Oberon and Modula-3.
-
- Mark Morgan Lloyd
- mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk
-
- [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or
- colleagues]
-