Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!uva!freek
From: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Wirth's paper "From Modula to Oberon"
Message-ID: <320@uva.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 18:53:58 GMT
References: <INFO-M2%88051808492544@DB0TUI11> <17451@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <17451@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
>      In each of Wirth's languages there is some tragic flaw, something
>that drives users straight up the walls.  What will it be in Oberon?

What was the flaw in Modula-2 [in your opinion :-)]?

What bothers me about Oberon:
In Modula-2 it is possible to do your own memory-management by implementing
module Storage yourself. What I would like is the possibility to taylor the
garbage collection that is present in Oberon in an analogous way, but I don't
think that that is possible. Comments?

>					John Nagle

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