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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Wirth's paper "From Modula to Oberon"
Message-ID: <17453@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 19 May 88 04:47:54 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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     Wirth writes:
>In relying on evolution rather than revolution we remain in the
>tradition of  a long development that led from Algol to
>Pascal, then to Modula-2, and  eventually to Oberon. 

     Wirth is rewriting history here.  Between Pascal and Modula 2 was
Modula 1, or simply Modula, an embarassment he now calls "an experiment",
but in its day was promoted as a successor to Pascal.
					John Nagle