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- From: ak45ldp@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Whither The Next ANSI Pascal Standard? (Breath of Life)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.150709.12961@texhrc.uucp>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 15:07:09 GMT
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- In article <19AUG199209013396@gergo.tamu.edu>, chris@gergo.tamu.edu (Chris King) writes:
-
- |> All in all, pascal will probably not change, since Wirth seems to have
- |> dropped it. I think that pascal will always
- |> be the language for application programmers and C will be the language of
- |> system programmers. But then again what do I know.
- |>
-
- I have been programming in both C and Pascal for some time now. I agree
- that C is better suited for systems programming and Pascal is much better
- for applications programming. I really don't expect this to change, but
- there is hope.
-
- I have been looking at Modula-3 lately. It has the best parts of Pascal,
- C, Modula-2 and Ada all rolled into a nice little package. It also has
- several features which I have never seen before. It has support
- for Object Oriented Programming, multi-threaded programs, Ada's Generic
- packages, powerful data structure manipulation like Pascal and Modula-2,
- and just about anything that eithier a systems programmer or application
- programmer would ever want, and still maintains a reasonable simple
- syntax.
-
- Modula-3 is the best all-around programming language that I have seen
- yet, and I have used a fairly large number of languages. If it catches
- on ( unlikely ) it could unify the worlds of systems and applications
- programming.
-
- Oh, well, I can always dream.
-
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