🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.lang.modula2
Article #2545

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

#2545
From: Carsten Whimster
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 13:36
16 lines
1388 bytes
In article <DFIrI3.K5M@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
Marc E. Fiuczynski <mef@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
|  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). 

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

Isn't Java supposed to be like this? Safe, yet C-like?
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------
  Carsten Whimster  CS241 Tutor  MC1021 x6657  cs241@cayley 
-------------------------------------------------------------
Technical Details
Message-ID: <DFKGHB.85C@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!cs241
References: <438nkr$bd@classic.eng.octel.com> <DFI1rr.LyC@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <Pine.SUN.3.91.950926031537.27808B-100000@napier.uwaterloo.ca> <DFIrI3.K5M@beaver.cs.washington.edu>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!cs241
From: cs241@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carsten Whimster)
Subject: Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)
Message-ID: <DFKGHB.85C@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 13:36:46 GMT
References: <438nkr$bd@classic.eng.octel.com> <DFI1rr.LyC@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <Pine.SUN.3.91.950926031537.27808B-100000@napier.uwaterloo.ca> <DFIrI3.K5M@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Nntp-Posting-Host: cayley.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo