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Article #4265Re: Wirth's paper "From Modula to Oberon"
From: Phil Windley
Date: Mon, 23 May 1988 06:25
Date: Mon, 23 May 1988 06:25
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From article <5260@ico.ISC.COM>, by rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn):
> John Nagle:
>> In each of Wirth's languages there is some tragic flaw, something
>> that drives users straight up the walls. What will it be in Oberon?
> The lack of a counted loop ("for" statement) gets my nomination for tragic
> flaw.
Until Oberon, I was convinced that modern languages were moving in the
OPPOSITE direction. For loops are a limited form of generator ala ICON and
of course, with a closure you can do some very interesting things with
generators. If Wirth is going to say generators are a bankrupt construct
that he is going to have to do more than include one cryptic sentence in a
language description to convince me.
Phil Windley | windley@iris.ucdavis.edu
Robotics Research Lab | ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley
University of California, Davis |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!labrea!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley From: windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Wirth's paper "From Modula to Oberon" Message-ID: <1992@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 23 May 88 06:25:45 GMT References: <5260@ico.ISC.COM> <7195@swan.ulowell.edu> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: windley@iris.UUCP (Phil Windley) Organization: U.C. Davis - College of Engineering Lines: 20