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From: robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.053127.29333@agora.rain.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 05:31:27 GMT
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In article <TARJEIJ.91Jun18084649@ulrik.uio.no> tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) writes:
>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.


  Maybe because Wirth himself is such a poor programmer?  Ever seen the
code he wrote for the simple Pascal compiler?  Ugly to the bone!