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In article <BEVAN.92Nov14094620@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) 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.

I have tried a couple of times to use Modula-2 as a serious alternative
to C.

> Name the problems and we can find out.

Complete lack of anything like a standard runtime library. Not even all
compilers provide the InOut library specified in Wirth, and those that
do all end up having custom extensions for stuff I can do using stdio
in C. Wirth has a poor track record here: the Pascal runtime was unusable
for nontrivial applications, and Modula doesn't have a well specified
runtime I/O system at all.

It's annoying. I'd much rather use Modula-2 for non-trivial projects, but
I'm not prepared to define my own runtime. I already did that once, for
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