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From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
Message-ID: <513@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 02:48:39 GMT
References: <267@lafcol.UUCP> <460@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1284@buengc.BU.EDU> <3609@s.cc.purdue.edu> <102@m2cs.naggum.se> <7021@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <7021@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Matthew Eric Seitz) writes:
......
>	Aren't Modula-3 and Oberon both Wirth-approved replacements for
>Modula-2?  If so, what's the point in developing a standard for a language 
>which its own author doesn't support?

Wirth has  never `supported' any   of the languages  he  has designed.
Generally he has  added  or removed features  to fit his current needs
(see the history of Modula-2), without even  thinking about  what this
could mean to other users/implementers.



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