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- From: Rick_Sutcliffe@FAITH.TWU.CA (Rick Sutcliffe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re- pascal code to modula
- Message-ID: <00117.2810798581.11616@faith.twu.ca>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:21:19 GMT
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- Organization: Trinity Western University
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- Re: pascal code to modula
- Subject: Re: pascal code to modula
- From: Joe Bob, robart@agora.rain.com
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:34:26 GMT
- In article <C1Eo1E.473@agora.rain.com> Joe Bob, robart@agora.rain.com
- writes:
-
- >>(like some folks are going to believe ISO M-2 is Modula-2?)
- >
- >
- > You seem to be implying that you think ISO M-2 will be a step backwards.
- >In what ways is this the case? (I haven't seen any draft specs since the
- >one of Jan 1 1990).
- >
-
- The problem is not that some people believe that ISO Modula-2 is a step
- backwards, but that they think it is too much of a step forwards (or at
- least in a direction that they do not care for.) This is more of a
- political/religious argument than anything, like the C/Pascal/Modula wars or
- the IBM/Mac wars. The important thing is to have a well defined and
- versatile tool that gets the job done. Because the conception of "the jobs
- to be done" changes as time goes on, so must programming notations. The ISO
- committee has changed Modula-2 more than some would have liked. On the
- other hand, we have changed it less than others would have liked. Not
- everyone will be happy with the results reached, but the committee could not
- have pleased everyone no matter what it had done.
-
-
- Rick Sutcliffe
- Associate Professor
- Math & Computing Science
- Trinity Western University
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