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is modula-2 dead?

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From: jeff zeitlin
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 04:04
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Tim Channon (MsgID <714374380snx@black.demon.co.uk>) says:

TC::>If asked I tend to be guarded if someone asks what language was used to cod
  ::>a program. With a lot of my stuff that would be answered 'Assembler and
  ::>Forth', perhaps leaving out mention of the latter or just saying 'running
  ::>under Forth'. Commercially Forth is often not acceptable, and unfortunately
  ::>Modula2 can suffer a little in the same way.

  Unless the person asking has a legitimate reason to knoe (i.e. he's
  not just asking out of curiousity) I tend to answer (in various
  evasively polite ways) that it's none of his business.  The most
  I'll typically say si something to the effect of "a high-level
  language that I have easy access to."  If I know that I've used
  library modules that were written in other languages, I indicate
  that it is a mixed-language program.  The only time I give out
  actual information on the source language is if the person asking
  has purchased the source from me.

  J/
  jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com

 * OLX 2.2 * He's not dead, he's "metabolically challenged".
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Subject: is modula-2 dead?
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Date: 4 Sep 92 04:04:18 GMT
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