Re: Header files

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From: David O. Rich
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 21:29

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 In article <24955@louie.udel.EDU>, new@udel.EDU writes:
 > One thing I have always liked about the C language was the separation
 > between the "header" files (.h) and the "code" files (.c).  ...
 > Does anyone know of any relatively popular languages that allow this
 > sort of separation other than C and C++?  If not, why not? Discussion?

Yup, Modula-2.  A program can be decomposed into a set of DEFINITION and
corresponding IMPLEMENTATION modules.  For details (opinions, etc) try
comp.lang.modula2.

--dave

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From: dor@lanl.gov (David O. Rich)
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Subject: Re: Header files
Summary: Modula-2
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