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In article <4do539$h2b@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> cscedl@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Ned) writes:


> Modula-2 is gets the three T's: trim, taut, terrific. It's
> small, elegant (wait for it: you'll learn what that means),
> flexible, powerful and safe.
> 
> It's a damned shame that more employers don't use it. In a lot
> of cases, they'd do better business. That those prospective
> employers you mentioned don't use it probably indicates their
> ignorance. And maybe weakness in their product.
> 
> That more employers don't use it is *not* a good reason for
> making you learn programming principles *and* the specifics
> of some error-prone syntax horror like C at the same time.

You're quite right ! I'm working in a fairly important project
building analyzers to find errors in telecomm programs and we are
using C++. However, we spend more time on searching for errors than
actually programming. The damned thing writes randomly everywhere in
the memory ! Now we are trying to install bounds checkers to catch
these errors which would be no problem for a decent language like
Modula-2. In fact our employer is considering moving away from C++ to
Modula-2 or some other safer language. 

In fact one should not use C for anything else than toys. 

Employers do not know much about programming. If they learn about the
waste of time and the horrible lack of security in C and C++, they
hardly would object to using better languages. By the way, C did not
make it to "real" programming at once either. It was used mainly by
academics for 20 years at first.

I have put Garden Points Modula-2 and Oberon-2 in my Linux
machine. They seem quite professional and are supported if you pay the
license fee. Seem to work OK in the Linux environment with some
support in gdb too.

Nisse