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- From: ak45ldp@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt)
- Subject: Re: Is Modula-2 dead?
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:50:29 GMT
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- In article <36848@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, bmr@retiree.cis.ufl.edu (Benedict Rafanello) writes:
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- |>
- |> 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
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- Don't count on it, Ben. For some reason, most Americans have a dislike for "good"
- programming languages. If only Wirth had been an American...
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