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From: broman@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Vincent Broman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: A Modula-2 Gripe
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Date: 31 Aug 88 15:54:26 GMT
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I have to agree that the Wirth I/O MODULEs and its Logitech descendents
are barely usable.  M2's crying need is for a reasonable Std I/O library.

The BSI is coming out (sometime before the millenium) with an I/O library
standard that looks very well designed.  I have online (available for
anonymous FTP on bugs.nosc.mil) DEFs and IMPs from an older draft
of Stuart Cox, and DEFs only from a newer draft (17 Aug 1987, Version 2.0
of the WG) by Roger Henry.

In my opinion, BSI ought to widely publicize the design they have,
along with any implementations they can get a hold of, LONG before
they have the rest of the details of the language definition formalized.
People would gratefully latch on to it, unless too many years of
Wirthian tradition accumulate their inertia, for lack of active guidance.

Vincent Broman,  code 632, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152, USA
Phone: +1 619 553 1641    Internet: broman@nosc.mil   Uucp: sdcsvax!nosc!broman