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- From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: Is Modula-2 dead?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.203640.29245@psg.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 20:36:40 GMT
- References: <28O3529D7I@tron.gun.de>
- Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon, US
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- g_dotzel@tron.gun.de (Guenter Dotzel) writes:
-
- > there is almost no interest in Oberon-2 in the real world.
-
- Hi Guenter,
-
- Possibly the German real world. But the interest and use of Oberon-2 and
- Modula-2 in the States are about the same, although, sadly, it takes a
- magnifying glass to see either.
-
- > Maybe the O2-baby has to grow up fisrt by going through some standardisation
- > process?
-
- Use of Modula-2 over here has been inversely related to the so-called
- progress of the ISO WG, though I do not claim a causal relationship. Save
- Oberon from such a fate.
-
- Generally, there have been two sorts of language standardization efforts,
- those that try to standardize the intersection of classic definitions and
- implementations and those which attempt to standardize the union of all.
- ISO/JTC1/SC22/WG13 is attempting to standardize the union of all desires,
- whether tested by implementation or not. The results are predictable.
-
- > The main arguments against M2 was always "There is no standardised
- > library!"
-
- Luckily, this will soon change. It will soon be "The standard library is
- unbelievable baroque in design, unusable, and difficult to implement."
-
- Perhaps Pat will be kind enough to post Wirth's comments on standardization
- again. The Modula-2 standards work has made this lesson all the more clear.
-
- randy
-
- PS: Your attack on university users is worth an apology.
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