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Re: Modula-3 (was Re: Cambridge Modula-2/Mod-2 for Suns?)

#4485
From: John Doc Hayward
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1988 01:28
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In article <349@scaup.cl.cam.ac.uk> pr@cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Robinson) writes:
>Modula-3 is a reworking of Modula-2+ undertaken by Olivetti's Software 
>Technology Research Laboratory and DEC's Systems Research Center in Palo 
>Alto, with the approval of Profesor Wirth.  It includes provisions for 
>signalling and handling of exceptions, controlling concurrency and 
>providing a type-safe discipline for managing storage, as well as tidying 
>up the syntax.
>- Peter Robinson.

Oberon provides for Type extension which facilitate managing storage as well
as making object oriented programming easier.  How does Modula-3 relate to 
Oberon?  Which came first?  Is Modula-3 available to educational organizations?

Thanks in advance.

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From: johnh@wheaton.UUCP (John Doc Hayward)
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Subject: Re: Modula-3  (was Re: Cambridge Modula-2/Mod-2 for Suns?)
Keywords: Cambridge, modula2, sun
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Date: 10 Oct 88 01:28:54 GMT
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