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From: Bernd.Goetz@p21.f815.n302.z2.fidonet.org (Bernd Goetz)
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Subject: Re: How popular is Modula2?
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Date: 1 Jun 91 07:49:33 GMT
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Hi Nicolas..

 NC> and other popular magazines. My question is: Is modula2 getting more
 NC> or less popular?
 NC>
 NC> Any answers out there? I am trying to find out if there is any future
 NC> in modula2 programming beyond the academia.

prologue: C is very popular. why? hm. I think, because you can do anything
you want in the any way you can imagine. and it is close to the underlying
machine.
sure it is possible to do big projects in C. in modula-2 software engineering
can be done more clearly. so points as modularization (real), definitions of
data and procedures, strong typing make the language programmer-friendlier.
besides the point of C being closer to the machine than modula-2 can be
solved by more intelligent modula-2-compilers. and they are coming.
Wirth developped a new language, by the way: Oberon. I like it. but no one
can tell by now where that story leads. for sure it leads to object oriented
programming, i suppose.

Read Ya

Bernd


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