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Article #2547Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)
From: Matthew Kennel
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 21:27
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 21:27
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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). ???? Look at all the i = i++ et cetera garbage. Ok that's not the syntax, but semantics. But if you jettison C and inherited C-like semantics, what part of C syntax is worth keeping? : 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? No. Eiffel. Sather. Render that which is C-sar unto C-sar. : - Trung
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!martha.utcc.utk.edu!caffeine!mbk From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matthew Kennel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++) Followup-To: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Date: 27 Sep 1995 21:27:59 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Univ. Tenn. Message-ID: <44cfkv$44e@martha.utcc.utk.edu> References: <438nkr$bd@classic.eng.octel.com> <4395o4$3mv2@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <DAGENAIS.95Sep22100113@gutrune.vlsi.polymtl.ca> <DFI1rr.LyC@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <Pine.SUN.3.91.950926031537.27808B-100000@napier.uwaterloo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: caffeine.engr.utk.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]