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From: rwl@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Modern languages (Slight return)
Message-ID: <2414@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Date: 19 May 88 14:34:51 GMT
References: <3292@enea.se>
Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville VA
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In article <3292@enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
> Pam Arnold (pmjc@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP) writes:
> >This one may beg the question, but if any shop is REALLY SERIOUS about
> >this sort of problem, why not switch to a more modern language, especially
> >one that is more tailored to the requirements of software engineering? For
> >example Modula-2 and Ada (no flames, just add your own to the list).
> 
> Hear, hear!

Hear?  Yeah, I would like to hear how Modula-2 is in any way an improvement
over C.  Ada you may have a case for; Modula-2 just seems like a re-write of
Pascal -- an ideal language for toy program development.

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