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- From: bmr@retiree.cis.ufl.edu (Benedict Rafanello)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: Is Modula-2 dead?
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:35:44 GMT
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- In article <714374380snx@black.demon.co.uk>, tchannon@black.demon.co.uk (Tim Channon) writes:
- |> >Today Modula-2 to me seems to be dying: Vendors are vanishing and most of the
- |> >world (i.e. the Intel-World) is using C++. And in 18 months we will have a
- |> >wonderful standard, but nobody will care ("Modula-2? We are using C++").
- |> >So what is the presence and the future of Modula-2? And who ist really using
- |> >Modula-2 (no universities please, just the real world)?
- |>
- |> A new shareware comms program (Deputy) for the IBM PC compatible was released
- |> this month. The extant Odyessey comms program is also written largely in M2.
- |> Both are very good but alas I did hear one grumble 'I won't use it because
- |> it's written in Pascal-like'!!! (if it's written in C _I_ look for the weak
- |> typing bugs 8-)
- |>
- |> Ok, so the above is not the real world. Hearsay is that there are moves from
- |> Ada to Modula2 by major players but nailing names is not easy. People seem
- |> very guarded in their admission, me included.
- |>
- (Stuff deleted)
- |>
- |> Prejudice!
- |>
- |> TC.
- |> E-mail: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk or tchannon@cix.compulink.co.uk
- |>
-
- After talking to Stony Brook Software and Multiscope, I found out that the
- Multiscope debuggers are written in Modula-2 (using a compiler written by
- Stony Brook and now sold as Multiscope Modula-2 V4.0). I also talked to
- JPI and was told that their entire product line, except for the C and C++
- libraries, is written in Modula-2, including their Dos extender. Also, in
- BYTE there was an interview with the president of JPI who said that in
- Europe Modula-2 outsells C by a margin of 2 to 1. Several
- of the national laboratories and NASA use Modula-2 and their was even an
- article about what they were doing with Modula-2 in Dr. Dobb's Journal.
-
- Modula-2 isn't dead yet, and looks to be doing well in Europe. Maybe this
- country will wake up and the "C" craze the will pass. :)
-
- Ben
-