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- From: dagenais@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Michel Dagenais)
- Subject: Re: Is Modula-2 dead?
- In-Reply-To: andrea@ESSEX.STFX.CA's message of 26 Aug 92 18:22:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <DAGENAIS.92Aug27095131@pollux.vlsi.polymtl.ca>
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
- References: <0095FADB.C59759A0.22107@esseX.stfx.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:51:31 GMT
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- In article <0095FADB.C59759A0.22107@esseX.stfx.ca> andrea@ESSEX.STFX.CA (John Andrea) writes:
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- > The OO language from Bertrand Meyer called Eiffel uses C as a glorified
- > assembler.
-
- The freely available Modula 3 compiler from DEC SRC does produce
- intermediate C code. It works well but this makes the executables (and the
- debugging information) a bit larger than they should. It also makes
- debugging a bit more difficult. This version will remain useful for
- producing C code but upcoming versions (from DEC SRC as well as from GNU
- gm3) will be native compilers.
-
- In the coming years, the pressure for everyone to use the same language (C)
- for portability may diminish. Indeed, most UNIX sites have the GNU tools
- installed and thus any program compatible with one of the GNU front ends
- for gcc will be as portable as gcc itself (which even runs on 386 DOS!);
- you insure that the GNU tools are installed and type "make install".
- Whether it is in C, C++ or Modula 3 will not matter too much as long as it
- builds without problem.
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- Prof. Michel Dagenais dagenais@vlsi.polymtl.ca
- Dept of Electrical and Computer Eng.
- Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal tel: (514) 340-4029
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