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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: A Modula-2 Gripe
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Date: 31 Aug 88 02:44:48 GMT
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     With JPI Modula-2, file I/O capabilities are comparable to, say,
older Lattice C systems.  All the basics are there.

     I/O in Pascal was ill-designed.  I/O in Modula I was absent.
I/O in Modula 2 is marginally adequate.  Solving the fundamental
conflict between strong typing and I/O remains difficult.  The
solution in Ada is in some ways better, but requries the massive
machinery of generics.  It may get better in the object-oriented
programming era.  Is it better in Oberon?

					John Nagle