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Article #3251Why Modula-2
From: Robert L Barton
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 16:10
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 16:10
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Why Modula-2 rather than Oberon or Modula-3? Oberon has a couple points which would have been nice to incorporate into ISO M-2 (using a hex number with suffix X for characters rather than octal with suffix B, and allowing POINTER TO ARRAY OF CHAR). But apart from that Oberon is an inferior notation and a real step backwards. Modula-3 on the other hand improves on both M-2 and Oberon. The format for numeric constants is much nicer (even C has a better system here than M-2 and Oberon). But as mentioned, M-2 is much more widely available than M-3. Modula-2 also has an ISO standard, although it has major problems in the area of I/O, so people are continuing to use their old PIM modules until the situation is fixed with a revised standard.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.genie.net!usenet From: r.barton8@genie.com (Robert L Barton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Why Modula-2 Date: 6 Feb 1996 16:10:17 GMT Organization: via GEnie Services (1-800-638-9636 or info@genie.com) Sender: r.barton8@genie.com (Robert L Barton) Message-ID: <4f7uh9$hpp@rock101.genie.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rock103.is.ge.com