Re: Pointers

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From: John Haxby
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:41

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In article <TMB.92Nov13005803@arolla.idiap.ch>, tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:

|> The only language that I would imagine might be a serious alternative
|> to C among those that you have listed is Modula-2, but I'm not
|> sufficiently familiar with its low-level features to say whether it
|> could cover the same breadth of system-programming problems that C
|> covers.

Modula 3 covers at least the system-programming problems that C does.
Modula 2+ was used to implement the Topaz operating system; Modula 3
inherits a good deal from that.  There are some things that C is dramatically
bad at that Modula 3 is equally dramatically good at.  I don't work for
SRC, though I do work for DEC :-)

-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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