Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!lins From: lins@Apple.COM (Chuck Lins ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: M2 vs. TP Uggh! Summary: A quote from Wirth Keywords: Wirth says use Modula-2 Message-ID: <54239@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 21 Jun 91 21:38:45 GMT References: <1717.285A64EB@puddle.fidonet.org> <1663@balrog.ctron.com> <1991Jun21.105108.4032@waikato.ac.nz> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 15 In article <1991Jun21.105108.4032@waikato.ac.nz> bcs@waikato.ac.nz writes: > Something that few seem to remember: Pascal was never designed to be > a production language, and dressing it up won't take it's weaknesses away - > it can only plaster up the cracks. > Professor Wirth himself said to me once: "Pascal was only meant to be a teaching language. Modula-2 is the real language." -- Chuck Lins | "Is this the kind of work you'd like to do?" Apple Computer, Inc. | -- Front 242 20525 Mariani Avenue | Internet: lins@apple.com Mail Stop 37-BD | AppleLink: LINS@applelink.apple.com Cupertino, CA 95014 | "Self-proclaimed Object Oberon Evangelist" The intersection of Apple's ideas and my ideas yields the empty set.