Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!goanna!ok
From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: first-year programming language
Message-ID: <3266@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 16 Jun 90 07:33:32 GMT
References: <3256@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <126800006@.Prime.COM>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Lines: 14

In article <126800006@.Prime.COM>, EAF@.Prime.COM writes:
> Why not try Modula3 from DEC/Olevetti.

As it happens I picked up a copy of the Modula-3 manual a month or
so ago, and I've looked at it carefully.  It has a lot going for it,
but
    (a) it's *experimental* software
    (b) implementations were listed for *none* of the machines I mentioned
    (c) where are the textbooks?
just for starters.  I wish Modula-3 every success, and in a couple of
years maybe it will be a good thing to switch to.
-- 
"A 7th class of programs, correct in every way, is believed to exist by a
few computer scientists.  However, no example could be found to include here."