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From: shapiro@sor.inria.fr (Marc Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Choice of language for manufacturing Applications
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Date: 3 Aug 90 14:04:41 GMT
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In article <MULLER.90Aug2161540@molecule.src.umd.edu>,
muller@src.umd.edu (Christophe Muller) writes:
|>What about Eiffel ? Does anybody have an experience of
|> projects with *both* Eiffel and Objective-C (or Eiffel and C++) ? and
care to
|> comment about it.

What about Modula-3 ?  A friend who did a *very* large piece of 
operating system software in C++ (including handling device drivers, network
protocols, virtual memory, and the like) tried to convince me that
Modula-3 is better: much cleaner and just as powerful as C++.

Does anybody have something to say about this?

						Marc Shapiro

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