Re: Hey, is Modula-2 death ?

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From: Norman Black
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00

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Modula-2 did not evolve into Modula-3. Modula-3 was a new language that was
given an unfortunate name.

Yes one can argue similarities but you can do the same with M2 <-> Ada <->
Pascal <-> C  and all these are considered different languages.

-- 
Norman Black
Stony Brook Software


Kevin Zwack <kevinz@gazette.stortek.com> wrote in article
<5lclp2$1rj$1@news.stortek.com>...
> Just a side note, Modula-2 evolved into Modula-3, and now the Oberon
> language (including a newer oberon-2).  You can get information
> regarding the latter at:
> 
>  http://ics.inf.ethz.ch/Oberon.html
> 
> The Oberon system consists of a langage which has features that
> make it comparable to Java, and an operating system.  I think 
> the software can be downloaded from the web site.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin Zwack
> Denver, CO
>

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From: "Norman Black" <nrblack@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Hey, is Modula-2 death ?
Date: 1997/05/14
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