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From: muller@src.dec.com (Eric Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: for loops
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.153754.18135@src.dec.com>
Date: 18 Jul 90 22:37:54 GMT
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[I am posting this for Greg Nelson. I would add that we are very close
 to a new release of SRC Modula-3; we will send a message to this newsgroup]


In article <1610.269E1B17@puddle.fidonet.org>
Jason.Kankiewicz@f345.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jason Kankiewicz) writes:

   Eliot, was Niklaus Wirth himself responsible, in whole or in part, for 
   Modula-3.  Also, when was M3 introduced and what is garbage collection  
   (the deletion of useless variables?)

Eliot Moss answers

    Wirth was *not* responsible for Modula-3, but he *did* give
    permission for the name to be used.  (Note, *I* am *not* one of
    the original developers of Modula-3, though I have met with a number
    of the designers and have made suggestions for future changes (and
    even gotten one or two minor changes in).)

I'm a member of the Modula-3 committee, and would like to add that
Wirth listened to several reviews of the language and graciously offered
advice, which was very useful to us.

In response to other questions on this bboard about Modula-3 and its
availability: the language report was published in August 1988.
Implementation efforts began immediately at DEC SRC and Olivetti.  As
a result of these, the language was revised, and a revised report was
published in November 1989.  Olivetti closed the lab that supported
Modula-3, and seems to be on the verge of putting their system in the
public domain.  The SRC system is available under a liberal license.
It has gone through several releases.  A book on the language will
appear around the end of the year.

Greg Nelson