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Article #2549Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)
From: Matthew Kennel
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 04:51
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 04:51
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Carsten Whimster (cs241@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: : 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? In what substantial way is Java C-like? It doesn't seem that way to me though it's amazing what the right spin can do. Somehow people are convinced of two things that I don't adhere to: * Java is very C-like, but better * Being C-like is automatically a plus. I think it's a manefestation of the very foolish notion that "langauges that superficially appear like C source code on a terminal are good, and ones that don't are bad."
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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: 28 Sep 1995 04:51:55 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Univ. Tenn. Message-ID: <44d9lb$inl@martha.utcc.utk.edu> References: <438nkr$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> <DFKGHB.85C@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: caffeine.engr.utk.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]