Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ulrik!tarjeij From: tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2? Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 06:46:49 GMT References: <1717.285A64EB@puddle.fidonet.org> <1663@balrog.ctron.com> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: smith@ctron.com's message of 17 Jun 91 13:17:38 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ulrik I agree that Wirth is onto something. I don't dispute that oberon and modula2 might be academically sound (you can do anything with them), but I think that he has forgotten the programmer. There seems to be very little thought about ergonomics (look and feel?) in his programming languages. I think somebody needs to do approximately the same to oberon as UCSD and Borland did to Pascal. It is not accident that made Turbo Pascal outdo Modula 2. Greetings from Norway, -- // Tarjei T. Jensen - if it ain't broken, fix it anyway! // tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no || +47 87 21138 // Working, but not speaking for the Norwegian National Library.