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          Re: pascal code to modula
Subject: Re: pascal code to modula
From: Joe Bob, robart@agora.rain.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:34:26 GMT
In article <C1Eo1E.473@agora.rain.com> Joe Bob, robart@agora.rain.com
writes:

>>(like some folks are going to believe ISO M-2 is Modula-2?)
>
>
>  You seem to be implying that you think ISO M-2 will be a step backwards.
>In what ways is this the case?  (I haven't seen any draft specs since the
>one of Jan 1 1990).
>

  The problem is not that some people believe that ISO Modula-2 is a step
backwards, but that they think it is too much of a step forwards (or at
least in a direction that they do not care for.)  This is more of a
political/religious argument than anything, like the C/Pascal/Modula wars or
the IBM/Mac wars.  The important thing is to have a well defined and
versatile tool that gets the job done.  Because the conception of "the jobs
to be done" changes as time goes on, so must programming notations.  The ISO
committee has changed Modula-2 more than some would have liked.  On the
other hand, we have changed it less than others would have liked.  Not
everyone will be happy with the results reached, but the committee could not
have pleased everyone no matter what it had done.


 Rick Sutcliffe
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 Math & Computing Science
 Trinity Western University
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