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- From: jch@rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
- Subject: Re: Pointers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.104132.9849@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov3.130634.26112@rdg.dec.com> <1992Nov4.031026.23624@linus.mitre.org> <TMB.92Nov13005803@arolla.idiap.ch>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:41:32 GMT
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- In article <TMB.92Nov13005803@arolla.idiap.ch>, tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
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- |> The only language that I would imagine might be a serious alternative
- |> to C among those that you have listed is Modula-2, but I'm not
- |> sufficiently familiar with its low-level features to say whether it
- |> could cover the same breadth of system-programming problems that C
- |> covers.
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- Modula 3 covers at least the system-programming problems that C does.
- Modula 2+ was used to implement the Topaz operating system; Modula 3
- inherits a good deal from that. There are some things that C is dramatically
- bad at that Modula 3 is equally dramatically good at. I don't work for
- SRC, though I do work for DEC :-)
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