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From: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Criticisms of Oberon
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Date: 4 Mar 88 01:21:25 GMT
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	It seems to be that Wirth's languages (Pascal / Modula-2 / Oberon)
all seem to try to maintain a fine balance between machine independence and
compiler efficency.  What has made Pascal/Modula-2 more appealing to me than
C has been the proper balance between these two.  Pascal / Modula-2 source
code is highly readable and expresses itself very similarly to English, or
at least Pseudo-code.  Oberon seems to be a dramatic shift towards compiler
efficency at a great sacrifice in programmer efficency.  Many of the reductions
seem to have no purpose other than to make life easier for the compiler and
debugging more difficult.  I hope Wirth seriously reconsiders his removal of
enumerated, subrange, and ordinal ranged arrays.  The last thing we need is
another C.

						Matt Seitz