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Article #3250Re: Why Modula-2? was Do any employers use Modula-2?
From: Dr S. Hood
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 15:09
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 15:09
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Peter Moylan wrote:
>
> Eric W. Nikitin (enikitin@junior.wariat.org) wrote:
> >I seriously would like an answer to this:
>
> >Why should someone learn Modula-2 rather than one of its
> >'sucessors' Oberon(-2) or Modula-3?
>
> This gets down to a matter of personal preference.
>
> Modula-3 is something different. I could accept Modula-3 as
> a genuine upgrade of Modula-2, but it's not going to go
> anywhere unless it gets ported to lots of platforms.
>
> --
> Peter Moylan peter@ee.newcastle.edu.au
>
A look at the Modula-3 FAQ might be in order here --- Modula-3 is
now available for various flavours of Unix, Windows-NT, OS/2, and
DOS. Not sure about W95 yet, though I believe its being worked on.
In fact the Mac is about all that is missed out.
--
Simon IP : simonh@liv.ac.uk
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