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- From: mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: Is Modula-2 dead?
- Date: 15 Sep 1992 19:54:04 GMT
- Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD
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- andersen@reality (Robert Andersen) writes:
- : In article <BuL8Jw.s0@acsu.buffalo.edu> v064lnev@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Avatar)
- : writes:
- : > No, but it ought to be.
- :
- : Why don't you give us a reason instead of the non-intelligent response, it
- : ought to be.
-
- I'll reply for him but use my own opinions.
-
- Modula-2 is approximately isomorphic to C in conception. It's only real
- advantage is that it's better designed for human interaction.
-
- If people are going to spend some effort to "upgrade" their language, it's
- silly to stop halfway and use Modula-2. Modula-3, Oberon, Eiffel, Sather
- and others are clearly superior to Modula-2 and C, not to mention C++. For
- other purposes, Fortran 90 is the best.
-
- Oberon and Sather are significantly simpler than Modula-2 and C as well.
-
- As a result, I regard Modula-2 as something to upgrade from, rather than
- upgrade to, and hence it "ought to be dead".
-
- --
- -Matt Kennel mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu
- -Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
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