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Article #5291Re: Re: From Modula to Oberon
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1988 17:00
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1988 17:00
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In article <272@fang.ATT.COM> cbseeh@fang.ATT.COM (Edmund E Howland) writes:
>I might argue that Ada is a better language
>than Modula 2, simply because it has better concurancy primitives. But, if
>the application at hand had no use for these features, my argument would be
>invalid. Indeed, Modula 2 would be the better choice since the implementation
>would be smaller, resulting in tighter code, and in the long run more
>maintainable.
If your do not need any concurrency in your application, a smart Ada
compiler will generate code not containing any provision for
concurrency. Therefore there is no reason to believe that the code
generated from the Modula-2 program will be smaller.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pacbell!att-ih!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Re: From Modula to Oberon Message-ID: <2368@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 15 Mar 88 17:00:22 GMT References: <145@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <272@fang.ATT.COM> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 14