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- From: andrea@ESSEX.STFX.CA (John Andrea)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: Is Modula-2 dead?
- Message-ID: <009604F4.E0C77DE0.29497@esseX.stfx.ca>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 14:47:09 GMT
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- I would like to get a viewpoint from some European software developers
- on the language issues.
-
- Will the European Community (if it really becomes a single item) be requiring
- software to meet EC wide standards, and will the choice of language be one
- of those standards ?
-
- If so, i assume that a euro-style language will be the choice, such as
- Eiffel.
-
- This does have some consequences for us North Americans, in terms of teaching
- and development of software for world wide distribution.
-
- But maybe such standards will go nowhere. ADA was to be the USA language of
- choice, but it seems to have become C and now C++.
- With the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) about to be signed
- (Canada, US and Mexico) i have some worries that Canadians will be forced
- to produce C++ code to match the USA defacto standards even though i prefer
- to use euro-style languages.
-
- John Andrea
- VAX System Manager
- St. Francis Xavier Univ.
- Antigonish, NS
- Canada
- andrea@essex.stfx.ca
-