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From: larryr@sdsu.UUCP (Larry Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C vs. Modula 2
Message-ID: <2827@sdsu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 21:44:52 EST
Article-I.D.: sdsu.2827
Posted: Fri Nov 13 21:44:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 15:45:07 EST
Reply-To: larryr@sdsu.UUCP (Larry Riedel)
Distribution: comp.lang.c
Organization: San Diego State University, Math/Sciences Dept.
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I am a C programmer, and I am about to start a big programming project.  I
do not know Modula 2.  I am interested to know which language I should use.
I need my program to be fast, but I don't want any weird almost impossible
to trace errors to come up.  It is very difficult for me to get a straight
answer, because people are so religious about this sort of thing.  I get
the sneaking suspicion that Modula 2 is for old Pascal programmes who don't
want to take the responsibilities of programming in C, because whenever
I ask them to compare them, they start to tell me how screwed up C is,
and how it is too hard to understand.  I know that C is fine once you
get to know it, so I question their legitimacy.  What can't you do as easily
in M2 as you can in C?  What can you do in M2 much easier than in C?  Also,
doesn't Modula 2 compile a lot faster (I have an Amiga if anyone has compared
the speeds of the two on this machine>?

Thanks very much,
     -Larry Riedel

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