Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!T.Moore From: T.Moore@massey.ac.nz (T. Moore) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Borland's Turbo Modula 2 Message-ID: <1990Dec6.205514.28716@massey.ac.nz> Date: 6 Dec 90 20:55:14 GMT References: <754.2742BAD1@puddle.fidonet.org> Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Lines: 28 X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2.2 > JPI TopSpeed Modula is what you're looking for. Same guys from Borland > wrote. It has a neat debugger, but I hated their lame idea about cutting > the STANDARD key words short, ie, WriteLn --> WrLn; That defeats modularity! > ^^^^^^^^ I always thought that I/O was part of Wirth's _suggested_ library and not part of the standard (if there is one). I feel that something so fundamental should have had a higher status than that, however, I quite like these abbreviations. Anyway, a later suggestion of Wirth's, is to allow alias declarations and JPI allows this. So, if you don't like the abbreviations you can always have WriteLn as an alias for WrLn. (I always put in colour as an alias for color, and grey for gray - otherwise my programs _never_ compile [I hate programming in a foreign language (:-)]). -- Terry Moore Department of Mathematics and Statisics, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Kroneker: "God made the natural numbers, the rest is the work of man." Zermelo: "But I can construct the natural from the empty set alone." Bystander: "Who said 'You can't get something for nothing.'?" Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com