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From: martillo@cpoint.UUCP (martillo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: C++ vs. Modula2
Message-ID: <1441@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 00:57:00 GMT
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Organization: Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton Mass.
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If you are interested in the usefulness of Modula II as a
systems programming language, I suggest you contact someone
in the Operating Systems group at Prime Computer.  They
were trying to use Modula II as a system programming language
for Primos to supplement FORTRAN 66, PLP, SPL and 4 dialects
of PMA.  Helen Raizen wrote in Modula II the operating system 
synchronizer code, which in a very weird way gives Primos some of the
functionality of BSD select().  Primos Rev 22 as a consequence
has part of the operating system written in modula II.  I am not
sure off hand what other operating system functionality was
added in Modula II.

Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo