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From: Anthon_Pang@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Modula-2, where are you?
Message-ID: <4776@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 14:45:18 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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tmb@davinci.acc.Virginia.EDU (Thomas M. Breeden) writes:
> In article <4702@mindlink.UUCP> a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang) writes:
> >griff@anvil.intel.com  (Richard Griffith) writes:
> >> well, there's Benchmark - not quite Wirth-Modula -
> >> anybody else?
> >
> >What do you mean by not Wirth Modula?  It appears to have the basic standard
> 
> One thing that has irritated me (and taken a good deal of time in
> obscure bug finding, since it is truly non-M2), is the compiler's use
> of backslash in string literals as an escape character.

I'm sorry you found it such an irritation.  But considering the large amount of
C-oriented documentation for the Amiga, and the obvious deficiency in the
standard to handle this case (of escape characters), this is not only
tolerable, but desirable.