🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 16 May 91 12:54:48 GMT Robert Marti said:
>
>In article <9105160454.AA24029@canne.cs.umu.se> Modula2 List
><INFO-M2%UCF1VM.BITNET@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu> writes:
>>Do yourself a favor and don't use Oberon or any other ftp'able,
>>buggy, beta-class product.
>
>This is the second condescending followup of this style.
>What the heck do you know about the reliability of the ETH
>implementation of MacOberon in particular -- or of any other
>ftp'able software, for that matter?!  (For example, I have been
>using the ftp'able MIT C-Scheme implementation for my introduction
>to knowledge based systems, and with one exception we have never
>had any problems with it.)
>
If my memory doesn't fool me, the person who asked about the pd
Oberon wanted it to run on MS-DOS, and that's what the above
statement probably, and my recent posting definitely, refers to.
The particular compiler for MS-DOS (called Oberon-M) doesn't come
from ETH Zurich (their systems really seem to be fine products).
Oberon-M really is nearly useless, and a warning to those wanting
to use it for serious work (I do consider education serious) is
completely appropriate.
You are of course right that MIT-Scheme and many other FTPable
software are great, and indeed very stable.
>So, please, do _us_ a favor and don't broadcast your condescending
>advice to the net at large.
What's wrong with answering to a question posted to the most-
appropriate discussion list? (Yes, this is about Modula-2; but since
Oberon is M2's successor and there is - as far as I know - yet no
INFO-OBERON around, I still consider it appropriate).

Marc Wachowitz
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