Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)

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From: kominek
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 06:23

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In article <DAGENAIS.95Sep22100113@gutrune.vlsi.polymtl.ca>, dagenais@gutrune.vlsi.polymtl.ca (Michel Dagenais) writes:
> 
> I finally got the exact reference from one of the people posting on this
> thread:
> 
> Laurie Griffith, "Modula-2 is three times less error prone than C",
> Proceedings of the Second International Modula-2 Conference,
> Loughborough University of Technology, UK, September 1991, pp 332-338.
> --
> 
> Prof. Michel Dagenais        http://www.vlsi.polymtl.ca/dagenais/home/home.html
> Dept of EE and Computer Eng.        dagenais@vlsi.polymtl.ca
> Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal     tel: (514) 340-4029
> 

The kicker is: why did not IBM (the source of this paper, I gather),
heed their own research? They should. The reason why IBM delayed 
introduction of the PowerPC personal computer is quite transparent.
Because they are unable to port OS/2 in a timely fashion. One 
programmer in the know called it a "big bag of dirt," i.e. a 
convoluted mess of C and assembly. Viewed from the outside the
operating system is wonderful. But on the inside ....

John Kominek
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Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
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