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

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From: Will Rose
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 12:49

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Bill Seurer (seurer@nordruth.rchland.ibm.com) wrote:
[...interesting summary deleted...]
: Other things killed other languages chances.  Modula-3 looked really good
: but fell flat on the available implementations and massive (at the time)
: system requirements of the compilers.  At the '91 (I think) OOPSLA meeting
: I talked with the Modula-3 SIG group about this and they didn't understand
: why everyone didn't just buy a top notch workstation to do development.
: They didn't see the real need for a Mac or PC implementation.  Oh well,
: they missed the boat and it's too late now.

And IBMS's current VAC++ compiler for OS/2 needs 32MB to run comfortably,
and 64MB is better...

(I wish there was an M3 for OS/2 - with threads it seems a natural, but
I've never seen a port).

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

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