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- From: stevef@bony1.bony.com (Steve Faiwiszewski)
- Subject: Re: Is Modula-2 dead?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.183359.4529@bony1.bony.com>
- Summary: Modula-2 alive and well!
- Organization: The Bank of New York
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:33:59 GMT
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- In <1992Aug20.134358.25702@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
- ms@lehre11.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Martin Schroeder) 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)?
-
- We here at the Bank of New York have been using Modula-2 on the VAX
- for quite a few years. We first purchased the compiler from Hamburg,
- and later upgraded to more recent versions by Logitech, and then Terra
- Datentechnique.
-
- We have many telecommunication applications which are responsible for
- processing funds transfers and many other kinds of financial
- transactions.
-
- Two of the more important requirements we have a for our software:
-
- 1) Correctness and integrity. No matter how fast a telecommunication
- link is, it better be correct when it's responsible for processing
- millions of dollars. Modula-2 proved quite worthy, by trapping stupid
- errors which C will gladly accept.
-
- 2) Ease of maintenance. In this business, things change often, and
- different programmers might be maintaining different parts of an
- application. Again, Modula-2 - with type and version checking accross
- modules - worked out beautifully.
-
- 3) Performance. Our Modula-2 applications are just as efficient as
- anything else we've seen written in an HLL. On the VAX, M2 gives us
- low level access, as well as a seamless interface to other languages,
- libraries, etc.
-
- I'd say M2 has been a great success here at the bank. However, we are
- looking forward to the future, and have begun looking into OOPL,
- specifically Eiffel.
-
- - Steve -
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