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- From: jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com (jeff zeitlin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: is modula-2 dead?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.812.1194@execnet>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 04:04:18 GMT
- Reply-To: "jeff zeitlin" <jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com>
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- Tim Channon (MsgID <714374380snx@black.demon.co.uk>) says:
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- TC::>If asked I tend to be guarded if someone asks what language was used to cod
- ::>a program. With a lot of my stuff that would be answered 'Assembler and
- ::>Forth', perhaps leaving out mention of the latter or just saying 'running
- ::>under Forth'. Commercially Forth is often not acceptable, and unfortunately
- ::>Modula2 can suffer a little in the same way.
-
- Unless the person asking has a legitimate reason to knoe (i.e. he's
- not just asking out of curiousity) I tend to answer (in various
- evasively polite ways) that it's none of his business. The most
- I'll typically say si something to the effect of "a high-level
- language that I have easy access to." If I know that I've used
- library modules that were written in other languages, I indicate
- that it is a mixed-language program. The only time I give out
- actual information on the source language is if the person asking
- has purchased the source from me.
-
- J/
- jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com
-
- * OLX 2.2 * He's not dead, he's "metabolically challenged".
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