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- From: tima@sequent.com (Timothy Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: m2 for scientific computation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.170550.6706@sequent.com>
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- References: <1992Aug25.105519.3967@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 17:05:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.105519.3967@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
- >I think Modula-2 still has a good chance to replace FORTRAN as the
- >primary language for scientific computing.
- >
-
- Ya, and C has a good chance to replace COBOL as the primary language for
- business computing.
-
- Get serious.
-
- Modula2 is dead. It's a shame! I was just telling someone after looking at
- a C++ example, "Luckily I learned Modula-2 first. I do all this stuff
- allready, I just have to learn a different syntax".
-
- And let's all thank the Ada-2 folks for nailing the coffin shut...
-
- tima@sequent.com
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