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Viet-Trung Luu <vluu@napier.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>The Modula-n programming languages are pretty good. However, they suffer 
>in their Pascal heritage. The C-type syntax is much more concise and 
>consistent (no flames please). 

How can you expect not to be flamed on this?  You can't get away with just
stating something as fact without backing it up ;).  Any way, Borland's
Delphi seems to be pretty good (or am I confusing it with something else), 
which implies that people don't mind programming in a Pascal syntax. Also,
there were quite a few systems written in Pascal back in the 80's.  I don't
believe that its the pascal like syntax that people don't like.  Rather, its
the high acceptance of C programming in various programming environments.

What about the Pascal like language do you not like?  That you have to explicitly
type BEGIN .. END.  I've been a C advocate for a while and just switched to
Modula-3 in January.  My emacs operating system knows how to expand the M3 keywords, 
which makes programming just as easy as C (IMHO).


>What the world needs is a language that 
>offers both simplicity and elegance, along with the ability to 
>self-organize and self-document (code, that is). Is it time for a D 
>programming language?

What exactly are you after?  An improved syntax? How about Modula-3 with a C syntax?

Marc

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